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As Cholera Season Bears Down On Haiti, Vaccination Program Stalls
by RICHARD KNOX
12:01 am March 13, 2012
The vaccine ? $417,000 worth of it ? is stacked high in refrigerated containers to protect it from the Haitian heat.
Hundreds of health workers are trained and ready to give the vaccine. They're armed with programmed smartphones and tablet computers to keep track of who has been vaccinated and who needs a second dose.
And 100,000 eager Haitians, from the teeming slums of Port-au-Prince to tiny hamlets in Haiti's rice bowl, have signed up to get the vaccine.
But everything is on hold. A long-planned project to find out whether vaccination is feasible in the midst of an ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti has been stymied ? temporarily, its proponents insist ? by the kind of glitch that bedevils many projects in Haiti, large and small.
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by RICHARD KNOX
12:01 am March 13, 2012
The vaccine ? $417,000 worth of it ? is stacked high in refrigerated containers to protect it from the Haitian heat.
Hundreds of health workers are trained and ready to give the vaccine. They're armed with programmed smartphones and tablet computers to keep track of who has been vaccinated and who needs a second dose.
And 100,000 eager Haitians, from the teeming slums of Port-au-Prince to tiny hamlets in Haiti's rice bowl, have signed up to get the vaccine.
But everything is on hold. A long-planned project to find out whether vaccination is feasible in the midst of an ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti has been stymied ? temporarily, its proponents insist ? by the kind of glitch that bedevils many projects in Haiti, large and small.
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