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Africa: Cholera Vaccine Shortage Forces Shift to One-Dose Regimen
UN News, 19 October 2022
A lack of global supply has prompted the international body which distributes oral cholera vaccines during outbreaks and emergencies to temporarily suspend the standard two-dose… Read more »
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Africa: Continent Sees Surge in Cholera Amid Vaccine Shortage
DW, 25 October 2022
Kenya is the latest nation to report cholera as Africa sees a spike in cases, especially in flood-hit Nigeria and Cameroon. This comes as WHO cut vaccine doses because of a supply… Read more »
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Cameroon: Authorities Say Cholera Hits Minawao, a Nigerian Refugee Camp
VOA, 24 October 2022
Authorities in Cameroon say they are struggling to contain a cholera outbreak in an overcrowded refugee camp on its northern border with Nigeria. In the past week, three people… Read more »
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Cameroon: Health Officials Battle Cholera Outbreak As Floods Ravage Border Areas
VOA, 19 October 2022
Cameroon says a fresh wave of cholera outbreak provoked by ongoing floods in its northern border with Chad and Nigeria has killed at least 17 people and many more are feared dead… Read more »
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Kenya: Kiambu Reports Cholera Outbreak
Capital FM, 19 October 2022
Kiambu has reported 15 positive cases of Cholera just a week after the Ministry of Health had put Nairobi County on high alert over reports of a possible outbreak. Read more »
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Nigeria: Cholera Kills 233, Confirmed Cases Hit 2,187 in 31 States
Leadership, 14 October 2022
As Nigeria records 2,187 cases of cholera in 31 states with 233 deaths in nine months, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned that the country would continue to… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Four People Die As Cholera Outbreak Reported in Oromia, Somali Region Border Areas
Addis Standard, 14 October 2022
On 27 August 2022, the first cholera case was reported in Harana Buluk woreda of Bale zone, Southern Oromia region of Ethiopia. On 18 September 2022, Berbere woreda became the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Cholera - Nigeria Records 80 Deaths, 4,153 Suspected Cases in One Month
Premium Times, 18 October 2022
The report also showed that of the total 256 suspected deaths in 2022, Borno State accounted for 93. Read more »
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Nigeria: Why Nigeria Remains Fertile Breeding Ground for Cholera Outbreak
Leadership, 19 October 2022
There is no end in sight to Nigeria's battle with recurrent cholera outbreak as the country's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices remain poor. Read more »
Global Shortage of Cholera Vaccines in the Spotlight
A lack of global supply has prompted the international body which distributes oral cholera vaccines during outbreaks and emergencies to temporarily suspend the standard two-dose regimen.
The International Coordinating Group (ICG) says the switch to a single-dose approach will help conserve stocks, allowing the oral vaccine to combat the potentially fatal waterborne disease in more countries, amid an "unprecedented" rise in outbreaks, said WHO in a press release.
"To ease the problem in the longer term, urgent action is needed to increase global vaccine production", said WHO. The ICG will continue to monitor the global epidemiological trends, and will review this decision regularly. The supply of cholera vaccines right now, is extremely limited, said WHO, and has to be coordinated by the ICG which manages the global stockpile.
Of the total 36 million doses forecast to be produced in 2022, 24 million have already been shipped for preventive (17%) and reactive (83%) campaigns, and an additional eight million doses were approved by the ICG for the second round for emergency vaccination in four countries, illustrating the dire shortage of the vaccine.
Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and other countries have been battling with outbreaks recently.
InFocus
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Despite a nationwide vaccination campaign that started in May, Malawi is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 1,073 people and cau Read more »
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Plans are under way in Malawi to start administering the cholera vaccine in some southern districts, as the number of cholera cases has been rising since an outbreak began in ... Read more »
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the fight against Cholera is more than just about vaccination, as the need to address issues around Water Sanitation and Hygiene ... Read more »
Malawian journalist Kenneth Jali takes the cholera vaccine during the launch of the vaccination campaign in Blantyre, May 23, 2022.
