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Haiti - Cholera: Fact Sheet #6, Fiscal Year (FY) 2011

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Friday, December 3, 2010
U.S. Agency for International Development
This factsheet provides an overview of humanitarian assistance to address widespread cholera outbreak in Haiti. ? The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) highlight a decreasing case fatality rate (CFR) since the outbreak began in late October, noting that the CFR for hospitalized patients has decreased from up to 9 percent to 3.5 percent, with an overall CFR for both hospitalized and non-hospitalized cases of 2.2 percent. ? On December 1 and 2, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) flights transported 300,000 sachets of oral rehydration salts (ORS) to Haiti, bringing the total number of sachets delivered by USAID/OFDA to more than 1.6 million?sufficient to help 82 percent of individuals PAHO forecasts to have cholera in the first three months of the outbreak. ? On December 3, USAID/OFDA delivered 25 cholera treatment kits?which include medical supplies, gloves, soap, and Ringers lactate, an intravenous saline solution?for placement at critical sites in each of Haiti's 10 departments; 20 of the kits will be transported through USAID/Haiti's supply chain management system (SCMS) to USAID- and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-supported health facilities to augment treatment capacity at the facilities. In total, the kits will help treat 10,000 severe or moderate cholera cases.
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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