The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic has reached more than 900, and the disease is now present in six of its ten provinces.
An update on Haiti’s health ministry website said that as of 12 November, there had been 917 deaths and more than 14,600 hospitalised cases since the outbreak began more than three weeks ago.
The central rural province of Artibonite, the centre of the epidemic, remained the worst affected, accounting for nearly 600 of the total deaths.
Other provinces affected include Centre, Nord, Nord Ouest, Sud, and Ouest, where the capital is located.
Port-au-Prince, which bore the brunt of destruction from the 12 January earthquake in Haiti, had recorded 27 deaths up to 12 November.
The government and its aid partners are fighting to prevent the disease spreading in crowded city slums and tent camps housing over 1.3m homeless earthquake survivors.
The United Nations forecasts up to 200,000 Haitians could contract cholera as the outbreak extends across the country of nearly 10m.
It says $163.9m in aid is needed over the next year to combat the epidemic.
The cholera outbreak has stretched relief agencies and complicated the faltering UN-led recovery following the earthquake.
Despite that, presidential and legislative elections are scheduled to go ahead as planned on 28 November.
