Haiti, Oct. 14 -- In Haiti, maternal and infant mortality rates remain among the highest in the Caribbean and Latin America, and access to health care has become severely limited amid a broader crisis of violence and insecurity.

In response, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is supporting the reopening of the Isaie Jeanty Maternity Hospital, one of the largest in the country, which had closed during a wave of violence in early 2024. In partnership with the Ministry of Public Health and Population, MSF co-manages the facility to ensure the provision of quality sexual and reproductive health care services, addressing urgent and largely unmet needs.

As violence and insecurity increased between February 2022 and April 2...