In Haiti, Bureaucratic Delays Stall Mass Cholera Vaccinations

[Ronan Kelly]

In Haiti, Bureaucratic Delays Stall Mass Cholera Vaccinations
BY RICHARD KNOXMarch 27, 2012, 12:01 AM

A hundred thousand people in Haiti are ready and waiting to get vaccinated against cholera.

The vaccine is sitting in coolers. Vaccination teams are all trained. Willing recipients are registered and entered into databases.

The impending mass vaccination project aims to show that vaccinating against cholera is feasible in Haiti. It's never been done in the midst of an ongoing cholera epidemic. So far, more than 530,000 Haitians have fallen ill with cholera, and over 7,000 have died.

But the vaccination campaign is bogged down in bureaucratic red tape.
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http://www.wbur.org/npr/149403215/in-haiti-bureaucratic-delays-stall-mass-cholera-vaccinations

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: In Haiti, Bureaucratic Delays Stall Mass Cholera Vaccinations

Vaccination Against Cholera Finally Begins In Haiti


April 12, 2012

by: Richard Knox

After myriad delays and setback, health workers in Haiti are beginning to vaccinate against cholera.

Today, 50,000 people living in the slums of Port-au-Prince will start to get immunized against the disease. This weekend, another 50,000 villagers in the low rice-growing areas of the Artibonite River valley will get their first doses of an oral cholera vaccine.

It's a pilot project that will involve only 1 percent of Haiti's population. The aim is to show that it's possible to give the required two doses over a two-week period to desperately poor and hard-to-reach people.
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http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/npr1334245688-Vaccination-Against-Cholera-Finally-Begins-In-Haiti.html