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High cholera vaccination coverage following emergency campaign in Haiti: Results from a cluster survey in three rural Communes in the South Department, 2017 [1]

Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) has increasingly been used as an outbreak control measure, but vaccine shortages limit its application. [2] A two-dose OCV campaign targeting residents aged over 1 year was launched in three rural Communes of Southern Haiti during an outbreak following Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. Door-to-door and fixed-site strategies were employed and mobile teams delivered vaccines to hard-to-reach communities. This was the first campaign to use the recently pre-qualified OCV, Euvichol. The study objective was to estimate post-campaign vaccination coverage in order to evaluate the campaign and guide future outbreak control strategies.

Original Source [3]

Publication Date: 
31/01/2020
Ashley Sharp [4], Alexandre Blake [5], Jérôme Backx & et al [6]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases [7]
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Tags:
Cholera [8], Waterborne diseases [9], Haiti [10], Health Care [11], Vaccination [12], Child Health [13]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/high-cholera-vaccination-coverage-following-emergency-campaign-haiti-results-cluster
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/cholera-vaccination-Haiti.pdf
[3] https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007967
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ashley-sharp
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alexandre-blake
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/j%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-backx-et-al
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-neglected-tropical-diseases
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cholera
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waterborne-diseases
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/haiti
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vaccination
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/child-health