Abstract
The article reports a training course which was a cooperative effort by Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti and was intended to strengthen the operational capacity of Haitian professionals in epidemiology, surveillance, and health situation analysis. This training course included forty professionals from Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population who work in the country’s ten health departments, and linked epidemiological knowledge, public health, and educational action based on issues related to this work. This training permitted data on the epidemiological condition of the country to be collected and was a true laboratory for participative methodologies in epidemiological and social research.
Haiti; training in epidemiology; health surveillance; permanent education in health
1 Alliteration both blames the use of French to dominate the imagination for illness in the rural population while also presenting a weapon against this same domination in recovering silenced Haitian poetics. Support by health service workers in rural areas will also be offered through alliteration that invokes thought-language that is in contact with imagination (popular poetry, not deterministic beliefs).2 4-H Club or 4 H Syndrome: homosexuals, heroin users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians (an intolerable formula for prejudice and discrimination), even denying the arrival of HIV through the flow of American tourists seeking sex and exploitation.3 The Baby Doc government: illiteracy, low life expectancy, hunger, and the Aids epidemic, Haitians flee to the United States in overcrowded boats.4 Minustah: United Nations Stabilizing Mission in Haiti.
