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Haiti - Cholera: Fact Sheet #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 2011

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Friday, November 19, 2010
U.S. Agency for International Development
This factsheet provides an overview of humanitarian assistance to address widespread cholera outbreak in Haiti. On October 22, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten issued a disaster declaration due to the cholera outbreak. USAID's Haiti Task Team (HTT)'comprising representatives from USAID's Latin America and the Caribbean, Global Health, and Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance bureaus, as well as other U.S. Government (USG) agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'began coordinating the USG response. ? On October 23, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) deployed a health advisor to support the USG response and USAID/OFDA Haiti program office staff began to respond to emergency health needs. ? On October 26, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Haiti, including additional technical advisors for health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The USAID/DART has worked closely with USAID/Haiti and staff from the CDC to coordinate emergency response efforts with technical assistance to the Government of Haiti (GoH) Ministry of Health (MoH) and longer-term health systems support. ? To support the coordination efforts of the USAID HTT and the USAID/DART, USAID stood up a Response Management Team in Washington, D.C., on October 26. ? To date, USAID/OFDA has provided nearly $4.4 million for emergency response activities and relief supplies, including bleach, cholera beds, hygiene kits, water bladders, and water containers. On October 30, a USAID/OFDA flight transported 1,000 cholera beds to Haiti for use in cholera treatment centers (CTCs) countrywide.
Theme(s) & Sub-theme(s): 
Emergency & Disaster ReliefWater, Sanitation, Hygiene
Resource type: 
Factsheet
Region & Countries: 
HaitiLatin America and the Caribbean
Resource Scale: 
National

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