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The humanitarian context in Haiti remains challenging as the country continue to be affected by a convergence of humanitarian crises further aggravated by Hurricane Matthew and which has severely impacted the pre-existing humanitarian situation. Despite immediate humanitarian response provided so far, post Hurricane Matthew’s humanitarian needs are still high with an estimated 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Additionally, 2.3 million vulnerable Haitians are currently food insecure. In addition to, 46,691 IDP’s of the earthquake,cholera and the bi-national crisis continue also to be humanitarian threats to the country with respectively 4,531 cholera cases reported until 31 March 2017 and 188,419 returnees registered from the Dominican Republic as of 27 April 2017.