Abstract
Responding to Cholera in Haiti: Implications for the National Plan to Eliminate Cholera by 2022.
Highlights
Further exacerbating the situation were Haiti’s pre-existing deficiencies in water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and healthcare infrastructure
In collaboration with the Haitian Ministry of Health (MoH) and other partners, we demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of complementary, reactive oral cholera vaccination (OCV) programs in epidemic settings, based on a pilot project that vaccinated 50 000 individuals in 2 high-risk communities [16]
In Haiti, several targeted vaccination campaigns have since been implemented by the MoH to prevent or curb cholera surges among susceptible populations, including almost 1 million people vaccinated in the southern peninsula after the passage of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and over 100 000 in the Central Plateau in 2017
Summary
Responding to Cholera in Haiti: Implications for the National Plan to Eliminate Cholera by 2022. In Health and its sister organization in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante (PIH/ZL) operate and have assisted with the cholera response, only 60% and 40% of the population had access to an improved water source, respectively. In both regions, which are 2 of the most cholera-affected departments in Haiti, less than 3% owned an improved toilet [11]. Such conditions facilitated epidemic spread and still continue to play a role in ongoing transmission
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