K4Health - Haiti Relief Toolkit | Nov 26 OCHA Haiti cholera update | Ethiopia - AWD update | Dominican Health chief confirms 7th cholera case | Haiti death toll from cholera rises to 1,721 | US Urged to Stockpile Cholera Vaccine
Campbell, Dan
K4Health – Haiti Relief Toolkit
The Haiti Relief Toolkit is a one-stop source for technical and practical information that will help health workers, health policy makers, program managers, and others respond to the earthquake relief efforts underway in Haiti. The toolkit covers the vital sectors in emergencies, including health, water and sanitation, food security, and shelter.
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Nov 26 OCHA Haiti cholera update
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 26 Nov 2010
Full_Report: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/JALR-8BNJ4Z/$File/full_report.pdf (pdf* format – 1.4 Mbytes)
HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES
- The Ministry of Health (MSPP) reports 1,603 deaths and 29,871 hospitalised cases of cholera.
- Due to elections on 28 November, some humanitarian actors will abstain from activities for the day, though emergency humanitarian response activities will continue.
- The education cluster reports over 200 schools in Cite Soleil, nearly all schools in the commune, are receiving hygiene promotion and cholera prevention materials.
- Camp Coordination/Camp Management cluster teams built facilities for the establishment of 73 Oral Rehydration Posts out of 250 planned.
Ethiopia – AWD update
Nov 29, 2010 – A total of 159 new cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), with two deaths, were reported in Oromia and SNNPR between 1 and 14 November 2010. The majority of the cases (85 cases) and both deaths were reported from Oromia. Affected woredas include Haro Maya and Jarso in East Hararghe zone and Uraga, Shakiso and Adola in Guji zone (Oromia) and Dara and Bona Zuria in Sidama zone and Wenago, Dila town and Yirgachefe in Gedio zone (SNNPR).
UNICEF reports that Case Treatment Centers (CTCs) have been established in Haro Maya woreda and prevention activities, including distribution of water treatment chemicals and dissemination of AWD prevention messages, are in progress. CARE has provided medical supplies and water storage containers to the woreda. Meanwhile, there have been no reports of AWD cases associated with the Dire Sheikh Hussein religious ceremony in Oromia. Ahead of the celebration, the Regional Health Bureau (RHB), UNICEF and Merlin provided pilgrims with water treatment chemicals and conducted extensive awareness raising campaigns on AWD prevention and mitigation.
Full-report: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/JALR-8BNKKY/$File/full_report.pdf
Dominican Health chief confirms 7th cholera case
Nov 29, 2010 – SANTO DOMINGO.- The country’s latest cholera case brings the number of people sickened by the disease to seven, most of them residents the barrio El Digue, Santo Domingo East.
Public Health minister Bautista Rojas confirmed the information and announced that president Leonel Fernandez will address the country tomorrow on the importance of preventing cholera and other diseases, to officially launch National Education Day.
The new case is a five year old girl, a cousin of a 12 year old boy who resulted positive to the bacteria on Saturday.
Rojas said the family is being given a close follow up because with the new case the number of relatives affected now total four.
Haiti death toll from cholera rises to 1,721
(AFP) – Nov 29, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE
— At least 1,721 Haitians have died from a worsening cholera epidemic in the
earthquake-devastated country, according to new figures released by the health
ministry on Monday.
The
latest toll comes a day after Haitians voted in chaotic elections marred by
violence and widespread allegations of fraud.
A total of 75,888 people have been infected by the disease and 33,485 have been hospitalized since the outbreak in mid-October.
US Urged to Stockpile Cholera Vaccine
Drug Discovery & Development – November 29, 2010
In the wake of devastating cholera outbreaks in refugee camps in earthquake-wracked Haiti, a group of leading experts from Harvard Medical School, George Washington University, and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) have urged the United States to create an emergency stockpile of cholera vaccines for future humanitarian use.
“The costs to the U.S. of creating and maintaining a stockpile of several million doses of cholera vaccine would be low,” said the experts in an article published online first on November 24 in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). “But the humanitarian benefits of rapid deployment of cholera vaccines to areas at high risk for major cholera outbreaks — such as earthquake-wracked Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital where 1.3 million people live in unsanitary refugee camps — could be enormous.”
Dan Campbell, Web
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Cholera Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cholera-control
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