Two-part blog series details Haiti cholera outbreak, response

Mar 9 2012

In the first part of a two-part series in the Center for Strategic & International Studies' (CSIS) "Smart Global Health" blog, Alisha Kramer, an intern with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, and Matt Fisher, project coordinator of the CSIS Project on Global Water Policy and a research assistant at the Global Health Policy Center, provide a brief history of Haiti's cholera outbreak, noting, "Ultimately, by the end of 2011, the outbreak had resulted in over 500,000 infections and 7,000 deaths" (3/6). In the second part, the authors recap the international response to the outbreak, writing, "Despite its physical devastation, the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population -- aided by PAHO, the CDC, USAID, and other non-governmental organizations -- responded relatively well to the cholera outbreak; the low case-fatality ratio supports this view" (3/7).