Apart from the 'quick-impact' programmes to be implemented over the coming two months, the ICF has outlined schemes to improve nutrition for over 1m poor children and their mothers, students, orphans, street children and destitute elderly, immunize 80% of children under the age of one against diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DPT3) in fifteen key districts, and rehabilitate 1,500 schools.
With an estimated per capita income of US$361 in 2003, Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Half of the urban population has no access to safe water, the incidence of HIV/AIDS is estimated at 5%, and the average Haitian can expect to live only 53 years. One problem with this aid bonanza is Haiti's scant ability to absorb the funds in the allotted timespan. Even planning minister Roland Pierre has admitted, 'It will be difficult in such a short time to configure projects and present then to the financial donors.'
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