Cholera

WHO recommends that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a supply shortage as outbreaks of the ...

“But if cholera were spreading in industrialized and wealthy countries right now, the production costs would be covered.” A global task force on cholera has estimated that the world needs about 250 million cholera vaccines until 2025, both to stop outbreaks and for preventive immunization campaigns. “This last-resort decision is a way to avoid making the impossible choice of sending doses to one country over another,” said Dr Daniela Garone, international medical coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, one of WHO’s partners in managing the global cholera vaccine stockpile. WHO said that of the 36 million vaccine doses expected for 2022, 24 million were already been shipped for immunization campaigns. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN agency and partners that include UNICEF and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said one dose of vaccine has proven effective in stopping outbreaks “even though evidence on the exact duration of protection is limited” and appears to be lower in children. The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a supply shortage as

Acting Director of Health Dr Patrick Amoth says the county health management should conduct active search for acute watery diarrhoea in health facilities and ...

He said cholera is an extremely virulent disease which affects both children and adults and can kill within hours. “The Sub-county health management teams should re-activate the outbreak management teams at all levels, improve lab capacity for specimen collection and shipment, enhance involvement of other stakeholders e.g county and sub-county commissioners, communities, water agencies & partners,” He said. Acting Director of Health Dr Patrick Amoth says the county health management should conduct active search for acute watery diarrhoea in health facilities and within the communities for missed/unreported cases, and strengthen surveillance activities up to the village level.

Abarwayi hafi bose barangwa ku mugwa mukuru Nairobi be no mu karere gahana urubibe nayo ka Kiambu, aho hamaze gutorwa 48 barwaye.

Kenya itangaza ko ikiza ca cholera cibonekeje mu turere dutandatu kuri 46 tugize igihugu, inyuma y’aho abantu 61 banduriye iyi ndwara yo gucibwamwo. Kenya iragabisha ko hadutse ikiza ca cholera muri ico gihugu Cholera yandukira biciye mu kurya imfungurwa canke kunywa ibinyobwa vyanduye, ikaba ifitaniye isano rya hafi cane n’isuku rike.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will temporarily replace the standard two-dose cholera vaccination with a single-dose, stated the global health body October ...

Kenya registered 60 cases of cholera in six regions in the country as on October 20. So, this temporary suspension of double-dose will allow the remaining doses to be redirected for any needs in the coming months. The one-dose strategy has proven effective in responding to outbreaks, even though evidence on the exact duration of protection is limited, the WHO stated. This will enable more people to be vaccinated against the disease even though it compromises the immunity. The ICG approved an additional eight million doses for the second round of emergency vaccination in four countries — illustrating the dire shortage of the vaccine. The current supply of the vaccine is ‘extremely limited’.

As global shortage of vaccines hit ICG. By Chioma Obinna. As Nigeria battles the outbreak of cholera in some parts of the country, World Health Organisation ...

“The current supply of cholera vaccines is extremely limited. “As vaccine manufacturers are producing at their maximum current capacity, there is no short-term solution to increase production. With a two-dose regimen, when the second dose is administrated within 6 months of the first, immunity against infection lasts for 3 years.

In response to a shortage of vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is recommending countries temporarily suspend administering two-dose treatments ...

Its use for emergency response is coordinated by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccines (ICG) which manages the global stockpile of oral cholera vaccines. With a two-dose regimen, when the second dose is administrated within 6 months of the first, immunity against infection lasts for 3 years. “This last-resort decision is a way to avoid making the impossible choice of sending doses to one country over another,” said Dr Daniela Garone, international medical coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, one of WHO’s partners in managing the global cholera vaccine stockpile.

The International Coordinating Group (ICG) has temporarily suspended the standard two-dose vaccination regimen in cholera outbreak response campaigns, ...

“The temporary suspension of the two-dose strategy will allow the remaining doses to be redirected for any needs for the rest of the year,” it said. It said it was with an additional eight million doses were approved by the ICG for the second round of emergency vaccination in four countries, illustrating the dire shortage of the vaccine. It said that of the total 36 million doses forecast to be produced in 2022, 24 million have already been shipped for preventive (17 per cent) and reactive (83 per cent) campaigns.

“Out of 61 cases of cholera reported, 13 people are currently hospitalized while eight have been discharged with forty treated as outpatients. The National ...

“Out of 61 cases of cholera reported, 13 people are currently hospitalized while eight have been discharged with forty treated as outpatients. “The outbreak whose origin can be traced to a wedding festival in Kiambu County has spread across Kiambu (31), Nairobi(17), Murang’a (1), Kajiado (2), Nakuru (2) & Uasin Gishu(8) counties,” said Amoth. Amoth says that at least 61 cases have been reported in the six counties.

One dose of vaccine has proven effective in stopping outbreaks, even though evidence on the exact duration of protection is 'limited'.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the International Coordinating Group (ICG) — the body which manages emergency supplies of vaccines — has ...

The temporary suspension of the two-dose strategy will allow the remaining doses to be redirected for any needs for the rest of the year,” the WHO said. With a two-dose regimen, when the second dose is administrated within 6 months of the first, immunity against infection lasts for 3 years.” In comparison, in the previous 5 years, fewer than 20 countries on average reported outbreaks.

The acting Director General for health says the National Public Health Microbiology Laboratory has isolated Vibrio cholera-01-Ogawa as the responsible serotype.

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. People with low immunity – such as malnourished children or people living with HIV – are at a greater risk of death if infected. Of the sixty-one cases reported, thirteen people are currently hospitalized while eight have been discharged with forty treated as outpatients.

Countries confronting outbreaks of cholera will have to administer half the recommended doses of vaccines because a global resurgence is exhausting ...

Log in through your institution The International Coordinating Group, which organises global supplies of emergency vaccines, will now administer a single dose instead of two, as the number of jabs available is dangerously low. Log in

With more cholera outbreaks overstretching the world's limited vaccine supply, WHO recommends temporarily suspending the standard two-dose regimen to.

Combat the infodemic in health information and support health policy reporting from the global South. At a certain point in time early this year, we were saying we need to ramp up seven times the rate at which vaccination was happening in the African region,” Moeti said. Moreover, COVID-19 vaccination coverage has stagnated in half of African countries, as the number of doses administered monthly declined by over 50% between July and September. Despite this milestone, Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, told Health Policy Watch that Africa is far from the global goal set by WHO for vaccinating 70% of its population. “And an additional 8 million doses were approved by the ICG for the second round for emergency vaccination in 4 countries, illustrating the dire shortage of the vaccine. The temporary suspension of the two-dose strategy will allow the remaining doses to be redirected for any needs for the rest of the year.