Foreign ministers and aid groups leading the Haiti earthquake effort held their first conference today on how to channel aid into a country that has lost much of its already poor infrastructure.

UN-led teams in Haiti yesterday switched their focus away from searching for people trapped in collapsed buildings to providing aid to hundreds of thousands of increasingly desperate survivors.

Haiti's government said today it would move 400,000 people made homeless by the devastating earthquake from the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts.