Haiti’s health indicators reveal weaknesses in the country’s health system. While the 2017 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), known in Haiti as the Enquête Mortalité, Morbidité et Utilisation des Services, suggests that trends in mortality and morbidity have improved. Nonetheless, poor health outcomes and low utilization of services persist, with nearly 40 percent of Haitians without access to basic primary health care. Haiti’s health sector is deeply affected by the chronic challenges the country faces as well as the number of shocks and crises over the past several years. Vulnerability to natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, gang violence increasingly targeting health care workers, socio-political instability, economic recession and hyperinflation, fuel shortages, and growing food insecurity collectively strain the delivery of health services in Haiti.
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