TY - JOUR AU - Lam, Eugene AU - Al-Tamimi, Wasan AU - Russell, Steven Paul AU - Butt, Muhammad Obaid-ul Islam AU - Blanton, Curtis AU - Musani, Altaf Sadrudin AU - Date, Kashmira T1 - Oral Cholera Vaccine Coverage during an Outbreak and Humanitarian Crisis, Iraq, 2015 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 38 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During November–December 2015, as part of the 2015 cholera outbreak response in Iraq, the Iraqi Ministry of Health targeted ≈255,000 displaced persons >1 year of age with 2 doses of oral cholera vaccine (OCV). All persons who received vaccines were living in selected refugee camps, internally displaced persons camps, and collective centers. We conducted a multistage cluster survey to obtain OCV coverage estimates in 10 governorates that were targeted during the campaign. In total, 1,226 household and 5,007 individual interviews were conducted. Overall, 2-dose OCV coverage in the targeted camps was 87% (95% CI 85%–89%). Two-dose OCV coverage in the 3 northern governorates (91%; 95% CI 87%–94%) was higher than that in the 7 southern and central governorates (80%; 95% CI 77%–82%). The experience in Iraq demonstrates that OCV campaigns can be successfully implemented as part of a comprehensive response to cholera outbreaks among high-risk populations in conflict settings. KW - vaccines KW - oral cholera vaccine KW - cholera KW - refugees KW - internally displaced persons KW - internally displaced persons camps KW - internally displaced persons collective centers KW - humanitarian emergency KW - humanitarian crisis KW - immunizations KW - vaccination KW - vaccine coverage KW - outbreaks KW - civil conflicts KW - enteric infection KW - bacteria KW - Iraq KW - refugee camps KW - immunization KW - enteric infections DO - 10.3201/eid2301.160881 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/1/16-0881_article ER - End of Reference