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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 2

Suspected cholera cases and case-area targeted interventions, Haiti, 2012–2019*

Year Total no. suspected cholera cases No. CATIs No. (%)
 CATIs/case ratio‡
Complete CATIs† Targeted communes
2012 101,503 ND ND ND ND
2013 58,574 3,599 4 (0) 87 (62) 0.1
2014 27,392 3,241 434 (13) 125 (89) 0.1
2015 36,045 8,091 5,500 (68) 131 (94) 0.2
2016 41,421 13,031 10,869 (83) 138 (99) 0.3
2017 13,681 12,244 10,739 (88) 129 (92) 0.9
2018 3,777 6,561 5,525 (84) 83 (59) 1.7
2019
 458
 1,943
 1,683 (87)
 42 (30)
 4.2
Total 181,348 48,710 34,754 (71) 139 (99) 0.3

*Data source: UNICEF (pers. comm., 2020 Jan 20; see also Appendix). Exhaustive recording of CATIs by UNICEF started in July 2013 with the launch of the nationwide coordinated rapid response strategy. CATI, case-area targeted interventions; ND, no data. †CATI with house decontamination, education, soap and chlorine distribution, and distribution of antibiotic drugs to contacts. ‡Ratio of the total number of CATIs by the total number of suspected cholera cases, per year.

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