UN: Haiti Displacement Tops 1.49 Million as Crisis Spreads to Rural Areas
OCHA situation report warns of rising malnutrition and collapsing health access in Artibonite.
The number of people displaced across Haiti reached 1.49 million in August, up from 1.47 million in April, as insecurity spreads to rural areas and provincial towns, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in its Nationwide Response Situation Report No. 3, dated 30 September 2026 and published on ReliefWeb.
The report states that 335,000 people lack adequate access to health care in Artibonite, where insecurity has forced the closure of 21 health facilities. It warns that 253,725 children aged 6 to 59 months are at risk of acute malnutrition by May 2027. National prevalence of global acute malnutrition rose from 5.1 per cent in 2023 to 7.4 per cent in 2026, according to the figures cited.
Health partners conducted 74,614 medical consultations through 120 mobile clinic deployments, the report says, as responders sought to reach communities cut off from fixed facilities.
The situation report underscores a widening humanitarian emergency, with needs extending beyond urban centers into provincial towns and rural zones. OCHA and ReliefWeb are the cited sources for the data.