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Healing Begins in Haiti

The day after the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake, a boy is bandaged at a makeshift medical clinic run by the United Nations. (Also see: "Haiti Earthquake Pictures: Devastation on the Day After.")

As of February 2, three weeks after the earthquake, most life-threatening injuries have been addressed, and search-and-rescue operations have ceased, UN emergency-relief coordinator John Holmes told the Reuters news agency. An estimated one million Haitians remain homeless, he added, and sheltering them should now be top priority.(Read "Haiti Earthquake 'Strange,' Strongest in 200 Years.")

Photograph courtesy Logan Abassi, MINUSTAH, United Nations

Haiti Earthquake Pictures: 3 Weeks of Survival, Strife

In the three weeks following the January 12 Haiti earthquake, aid workers have struggled to provide for the millions of survivors, who now face longer-term challenges finding basic resources and rebuilding communities.

February 2, 2010