US EditionHaiti faces a sexual violence and abuse crisis as gang violence spreads, health charity warns
Médecins Sans Frontières reports a threefold increase in sexual violence cases at its Port-au-Prince clinic since 2021 amid worsening gang control affecting displaced populations.
- On Wednesday, Médecins Sans Frontières released a report showing cases treated at the Pran Men'm clinic have roughly tripled over the past four years.
- Armed gangs have increasingly used sexual violence to terrorize communities, and displacement has magnified vulnerability with over 1.4 million displaced in recent years.
- Data from the Pran Men'm clinic show nearly 17,000 survivors treated since 2015, 98% women and girls, with timely care falling sharply since 2022, leaving nearly 70% too late for HIV prophylaxis.
- MSF reports the shortage of shelters and referrals, noting survivors with children or pregnancy are often rejected; patients are discharged back into danger, prompting calls for Haitian government funding and a 24/7 government-operated hotline.
- MSF and Human Rights Watch urged Haitian authorities to strengthen the health system and ensure survivor‑centered care, as PAHO reported 60% of Port‑au‑Prince inpatient facilities are closed or operating at partial capacity in 2025.
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While the number of sexual violence has increased sharply in Port-au-Prince, MSF denounces the impossibility of offering victims safe shelters and full support.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) alerted Thursday against the systematization of sexual violence in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, where according to the NGO these attacks are used by criminal gangs to "seed terror" among the population.
Haiti faces a sexual violence and abuse crisis as gang violence spreads
As gang violence in Haiti surges, sexual violence is increasingly a problem. The number of victims being treated at one clinic in Port au Prince has tripled in the past four years. Doctors Without Borders said it was “alarmed and outraged” by the overwhelming level of sexual and gender-based violence. Gangs control an estimated 90% of Port-au-Prince, with many resorting to sexual abuse to instill fear, experts say.
The Pran Men’m clinic that Médecins Sans Frontières manages in Port-au-Prince is witnessing an “alarming” increase in sexual violence in Haiti, a country mired in chaos and terror sown by criminal gangs. A report published on Wednesday by the humanitarian organization reports that 16,999 survivors of sexual acts have been attended in the last decade, including 2,300 cases in the first nine months of 2025. It is, however, “a fraction of those exp…
Since 2021, sexual and gender-based violence has increased in Haiti and is used "systematically to terrorize the population, with a disproportionate impact on women and girls."
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