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Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021
Dispatch

Toward Cholera Elimination, Haiti

Stanislas RebaudetComments to Author , Patrick Dély, Jacques Boncy, Jean Hugues Henrys, and Renaud Piarroux
Author affiliations: Hôpital Européen, Marseille, France (S. Rebaudet); Aix Marseille Univ, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Sciences Économiques et Sociales de la Santé et Traitement de L'information Médicale, ISSPAM, Marseille (S. Rebaudet); Institut Pierre-Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France (S. Rebaudet, R. Piarroux); Direction d'Epidémiologie des Laboratoires et de la Recherche, Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population, Delmas, Haiti (P. Dély); Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université d'Etat d'Haïti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (P. Dély); Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population, Delmas (J. Boncy); Equipe de recherche sur l’écologie des maladies infectieuses et tropicales (EREMIT), Université Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince (J.H. Henrys); AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris (R. Piarroux)

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Table 1

Summary of killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine campaigns, Haiti, 2012–2019*

Year Population in Haiti No. (%) targeted communes No. persons who received >1 OCV dose No. persons who received 2nd OCV dose (%) Percentage of fully vaccinated population† Percentage of population with residual vaccine immunity‡
2012 10,644,927 3 97,774 88,762 0.8% 0.5%
2013 10,937,675 2 113,045 102,250 0.9% 1.0%
2014 11,239,398 8 197,147 188,909 1.7% 1.8%
2015 11,550,392 0 0 0 0.0% 1.5%
2016 11,870,966 18 885,210 106,054 0.9% 1.5%
2017 12,201,437 3 215,358 628,049 5.1% 5.1%
2018 12,542,135 1 67,675 59,537 0.5% 3.9%
2019
 12,893,402
 0
 0
 0
 0.0%
 2.4%
Total NA 31 (22) 1,576,209 1,173,561 (74) 9.1% NA

*Data source: Ministry of Public Health and Population of Haiti (pers. comm., 2021 Jul 20; see also Appendix). NA, not applicable; OCV, oral cholera vaccine. †The proportion of fully vaccinated population was calculated by dividing the number of persons who received the 2nd OCV dose by the population of Haiti. ‡Percentage of the population with residual vaccine immunity was estimated taking into account the number of vaccinated persons, the percentage of fully vaccinated persons, and the published protection duration after a 1-dose and 2-dose regimen (Appendix).

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