Haiti - Cholera: Fact Sheet #4, Fiscal Year (FY) 2011
This factsheet provides an overview of humanitarian assistance to address widespread cholera outbreak in Haiti. To meet evolving humanitarian needs, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA)  continues to deliver emergency relief commodities and medical supplies to Haiti to ensure an uninterrupted flow of  required materials. USAID/OFDA's enhanced commodity pipeline includes forward deployment of supplies to the  USAID/OFDA warehouse in Miami and consistent commodity deliveries to Haiti through the end of January. On  November 26, a USAID/OFDA flight carrying decontamination equipment for use in medical facilities, including  cholera treatment centers (CTCs) and units (CTUs), arrived in Port-au-Prince. The shipment included buckets,  aprons, scrub brushes, sprayers, aprons, gloves, and biohazard bags. USAID/OFDA is preparing a second shipment of  decontamination equipment. ? On November 26, USAID/OFDA authorized the distribution of all emergency relief commodities pre-positioned at  four locations throughout Haiti for hurricane preparedness. The commodities'which include hygiene kits, water  containers, and blankets'will be distributed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for use in the  cholera response. USAID/OFDA is also sending an additional 7,860 hygiene kits from the USAID/OFDA warehouse  in Miami to Port-au-Prince for distribution. ? In the coming days, USAID/OFDA will deliver additional quantities of oral rehydration salts (ORS), water  purification tablets, and other commodities. USAID/OFDA staff continue to procure supplies'including 600,000  liters of Ringer's lactate and 300 metric tons of soap'and schedule flights to transport the materials. ? During the week of November 29, a team of USAID/OFDA logisticians will deploy to Haiti to conduct an assessment  of emergency relief commodity pipelines into and within Haiti. The team will determine supply chain gaps and ways  to strengthen warehouse and delivery methods to ensure that medical supplies reach facilities in affected and at-risk  areas quickly, including hard-to-reach rural areas. ? On November 23 and 25, Haitian President Ren' Pr'val chaired the meetings of the Health Cluster'the coordinating  body for relief agencies' health interventions'and underscored Government of Haiti (GoH) commitment to working  closely with relief agencies to facilitate the cholera response, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team  (USAID/DART) reports. Health Cluster members report that the 30-day customs clearance waiver currently in place  has facilitated importation of medical supplies, according to the USAID/DART.


