After Bringing Cholera to Haiti, U.N. Can’t Raise Money to Fight It
And, he said, while "$400 million is not a very large sum, considering the circumstances, we are all very aware about the competing demands." Mr. Mountain also conceded
that "on the financial side, we have not moved further ahead." Mr. Trump’s new United Nations ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, who has called the cholera crisis "nothing short of devastating," did not respond to requests for comment about the funding problem.
Partners said that We still have the biggest outbreak of cholera of any country anywhere,
"Here we are, nearly seven years later, and it’s still a big problem." Compared with other disasters confronting the United Nations, like the Syria refugee crisis
and famines threatening 20 million people in Yemen and parts of Africa, the Haiti crisis may not loom as large.
John Conyers said that While the U.N. has admitted to wrongdoing
and promised to create a fund to provide restitution to the people of Haiti victimized by cholera,
Ross Mountain, a veteran United Nations aid official who is its senior adviser on cholera in Haiti, said
that a number of ideas concerning the financing were under discussion.
The donor challenge was acknowledged by Dr. David Nabarro, a United Nations special adviser who rose to prominence running its mobilization to fight the Ebola crisis in West Africa,
and who has been leading its fund-raising efforts for Haiti as he seeks to become the next director general of the World Health Organization.