Partners in health reports on efforts to curb Haiti's cholera epidemic using oral vaccinations

Aug 3 2012

"In April, Partners In Health [PIH] responded to Haiti's cholera epidemic by providing oral vaccinations to 45,000 people living in the country's Artibonite region -- specifically, to two rice-farming communities hit hard by cholera," Louise Ivers, senior health and policy adviser at PIH, reports in an article on the organization's webpage. "In partnership with Haiti's Ministry of Health, hundreds of community health workers fanned out across the rural, flood-prone area, delivering two doses to each person by the end of May," she writes, and discusses the impact of the campaign (8/1).