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Experts Call for Major Investments in Water and Sanitation to End Cholera in Haiti and the Dominican

The presidents of Haiti and the Dominican Republic joined the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today in calling for major international investments in water and sanitation infrastructure to eliminate cholera from the island of Hispaniola.

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Health Cluster Bulletin #30 Cholera and Post-Eartchquake Response in Haiti

Currently we observe an average of 300 cholera cases per day with significant variations between departments. These can be actual differences, but are sometimes the result of under reporting in certain communes or treatment of other diarrhea-like illnesses at health structures. This is a significant decrease from last month, when an average of 500 cholera cases was observed.

Link to Health Cluster Bulletin #30 Cholera and Post-Eartchquake Response in Haiti

 

Health Response to the Earthquake in Haiti - January 2010

 Lessons to be learned for the next massive sudden-onset disaster

This book presents lessons to be learned from Haiti with the aim of improving the health sector’s response in major, sudden-onset disasters in the future. It also identifies opportunities provided by the disaster for making significant changes in health services in Haiti. One of the key lessons of the Haiti tragedy is that coordination can only be effective where national authorities are equipped to assume leadership and establish relief and recovery priorities.

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Interactive maps of the cholera outbreak

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