The campaign will focus first of all on the most affected parts of the country (Cite Soleil, Delma, Tabare, Carrefour, Port-au-Prince, Mirabelle) and will involve all residents over one year of age.
A vaccination campaign against cholera, which continues to spread in Haiti, will begin on Sunday, the UN announced, after the first doses of vaccine arrived in the Caribbean country that remains mired in a multi-dimensional crisis — political, economic, security, health. ..
“The vaccination campaign is expected to start on Sunday,” Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has repeatedly expressed concern about the increasingly chaotic situation in Haiti, which is controlled in part by gangs of thugs.
Some 1.17 million doses of oral cholera vaccines arrived in Haiti on Monday, as cases of the highly contagious disease “continue to increase,” the Pan American Health Organization said in a press release.
About 500,000 more doses are expected to be delivered to the country “in the coming weeks,” the organization, the World Health Organization’s branch in the Americas, said.
“Across Haiti, the number of suspected cases increased by nearly 10% over the past week. (The capital) Port-au-Prince remains the most affected area, but suspected cases are unfortunately multiplying elsewhere,” Mr. Dujarric explained during the accredited editors’ briefing in New York.
The campaign will focus first of all on the most affected parts of the country (Cite Soleil, Delma, Tabare, Carrefour, Port-au-Prince, Mirabelle) and will involve all residents over one year of age.
Cholera has been spreading rapidly in the country in recent weeks. The National Office of Epidemiology, Laboratories and Research (DELR) reports 1,220 confirmed cholera cases and more than 280 deaths, as well as 14,100 suspected cases, according to the Pan American Health Organization press release.
The vaccine (Evichol) was supplied by the International Vaccine Coordination Group (IGC), which manages the global stockpile of cholera vaccines, at the request of the Haitian Ministry of Health, PAOU said.
In mid-November, the UN appealed for $145.6 million to fight the epidemic.
But in a country where gang violence is a scourge, the humanitarian needs are far wider than simply dealing with the current cholera epidemic, which has claimed 10,000 lives between 2010 and 2019.
One in two Haitians are unable to eat when they are hungry. The UN has prepared for 2023 a humanitarian aid plan with an estimated cost of 719 million dollars, in other words almost double that for 2022.
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