Mar 14 2012
"A long-planned project to find out whether vaccination is feasible in the midst of an ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti has been stymied -- temporarily, its proponents insist --" after "a Port-au-Prince radio station reported that the impending vaccination effort was actually a 'medical experiment on the Haitian people' -- a potentially incendiary charge," NPR's "Morning Edition" reports.
"The Haitian Ministry of Health scrambled to counter that report, which apparently arose from a mix-up that occurred during last year's change of government," according to NPR, which explains the previous government "opposed cholera vaccination." The sponsoring organizations, Partners In Health (PIH) and GHESKIO, have submitted new proposals to the government for review, which "proponents hope ... can be accelerated," the news service notes. Officials with PIH and GHESKIO are "confident the vaccination campaign will go ahead sometime later this month," according to NPR (Knox, 3/13).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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