This research paper focuses on Haitian women's access to healthcare and barriers to receiving quality treatment, including how political turmoil has affected it throughout the 21st century. Haiti's history of economic instability has left many women in poverty and unable to pay for healthcare. Additionally, political turmoil has left many women unable to access resources, such as food and water, to maintain their health at home. In addressing the barriers to healthcare for Haitian women, we...

In recent months, cuts to external funding have threatened one of Borgne’s most essential community services: immediate nutrition and care for children and families . Mobile nutrition clinics—long a cornerstone of the Sante nan Lakou   model—have been forced to pause, even as food insecurity has intensified across northern Haiti. Inside the Alyans Sante Oboy hospital, Dr. Thony Voltaire and his team continue to provide urgent nutritional support to children who arrive for care. But without...

Meet Dr. Thony Voltaire, the medical director of northern Haiti’s most trusted and enduring medical facility, Alyans Sante Borgne. Born “on the side of the road” to a revered local woman and mother of eleven, Dokte Thony grew up deeply connected to the people of Borgne. That connection—grounded in humility, respect, and love—has shaped every step of his life’s work. Photo by Shields Sundberg Everything he does begins with empathy—an essential yet continually tested virtue in a nation where...