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audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - The Haitian government's $2.2bn 10-year plan to eradicate cholera was launched recently against the backdrop of the UN's rejection of a legal claim from more than 5,000 victims. They had demanded compensation for the deadly cholera epidemic, the worst to hit any country in modern history. Since October 2010, the epidemic has killed more than 8,000 people and infected nearly 648,000. The outbreak has been blamed on the UN peacekeeping mission. ''Haiti, with 10 million people, has seen almost twice as many patients as the entire continent of Africa with over a billion people,'' stated Oliver Schulz, regional head of Medecins sans Frontieres, one of the few NGOs still treating cholera in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Jan. 14, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A scene shows a street and its surrounding area that was badly affected by the earthquake that rocked the country three years ago. On the third anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake in which 250,000 people died, more than 300,000 Haitians remain in temporary shelter and President Michel Martelly has said international aid to help the country recover is not working.
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Jan. 16, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - MELANIE, who had her house rehabilitated by Care International after the earthquake, poses for a photograph in her house with MYLENE, her tenant standing behind her.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A scene shows a tightly packed camp on a hillside. Three years ago a powerful earthquake claimed the lives of over 200,000 people and displaced thousands more and over 350,00 are still living in camps like this despite a multi-billion dollar aid effort.
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Jan. 14, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - Riot police are deployed to control crowds gathered to see the arrival of a sacred tree that is being met by the President in a Voodoo ceremony. The log is being carried by the people of Haiti across the country to symbolize the need for Haitians' to join together in the struggle they face in rebuilding their country. The log carrying coincides with the third anniversary of the earthquake that rocked Haiti in which over 300,000 people died.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A scene shows people still living in camps.
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Jan. 14, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - Voodoo priestesses gather to see the arrival of a sacred log that is being met by the President in a Voodoo ceremony.
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Jan. 16, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - MELANIE, who had her house rehabilitated by Care International after the earthquake, holds her granddaughter's hand in her house.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A woman suffering from cholera is photographed in a Cholera treatment center.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A young boy stands in front of a sign indicating how many Non-governmental organizations (NGO) had worked in the camp he is still living in.
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Jan. 15, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - UN troops from Brazil go out on patrol. Shortly after a devastating earthquake claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, UN peacekeepers who arrived from Nepal brought cholera that spread killing over 8000 more.
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January 15, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - People sit in a front of a Mural declaring NOUVELLE HAITI ( 'New Haiti').
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A girl poses for a photograph who is still living in a camp.
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Jan. 18, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - MARY stands over her brother PAUL JORILIEN, who was shot when he walked out of his front door in a gang street fight. Gun violence is on the increase in Port au Prince as the government, run by an ex-rock star, Sweet Micky, struggles to cope with rising discontent amongst the population three years since a powerful earthquake destroyed the city.
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Jan. 18, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - Gang members hang out on the disused altar of St Annes Catholic Church that was destroyed in the earthquake.
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Jan. 16, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - MORANCE METHMISE, helps a colleague on a building site. The woman lost her husband in the earthquake that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people three years ago. She earns what money she can to support herself and two daughters.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A woman tries to wash herself with no privacy in a camp.
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Jan. 18, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A man holding a gun guards graves in the main cemetery. Violent crime and poverty are on the rise in Haiti and graves are regularly raided by people who steal coffins to resell.
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Jan. 18, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - Graves of people who died in the earthquake three years ago are seen in the main cemetery. The cemetery is now full so graves are starting to be dug up and bones placed in an underground vault to make way for new bodies.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - School children take part in a biology class.
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Jan. 17, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - A scene shows people still living in camps.
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Jan. 16, 2013 - Port Au Prince, Haiti - MYLENE, who is now living with Melanie who had her house rehabilitated by Care International after the earthquake, and who was living in a camp for over two years, poses for a photograph in the room she is renting.
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Kate Holt

KATE HOLT, is a socially concerned photojournalist, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Specializing in humanitarian issues throughout Africa and the Middle East. Among other long term stories, Holt spent a year uncovering the exploding sex slave trade of young girls being trafficked from Romania, Moldova and the Ukraine. Holt's reportage is represented by ZUMA via its' partner, the eyevine agency of London. (Credit: © Kate Holt/eyevine/ZUMAPRESS.com):465


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