Morning Briefing

In this post in the Huffington Post Blog, Dagfinn Hoybraten, vice president of the Norwegian Parliament and chair of the GAVI Alliance Board, examines a nationwide vaccination campaign in Haiti, through which "[h]ealth officials are targeting measles, rubella and polio and [are] also introducing pentavalent vaccine, one shot against five diseases." He writes, "Questions have been raised, understandably, about whether the international community has done enough to help" after an earthquake devastated the country in 2010, but "the nationwide vaccination campaign is a powerful sign of Haitians helping themselves."