This document provides questions and fears from the Cite Soleil community regarding cholera. The questions and answers focus on: transmission, treatment, water, and food and can be used with community health workers or other staff.

Factsheet includes information on the prevention of Cholera. Please click here for information on the translations of this resource into Creole and French.

COTS postcards are available for reference and use in the field for cholera.

This document provides questions geared towards cholera. The questions focus on: transmission, treatment, water, and cooking associated with power supply. 

These resources teach the science of diarrheal disease as well as the management and treatment of cholera and shigellosis outbreaks. The pocket cards are available in Creole and French. 

Safe drinking water and food, good hygiene practices, and sanitation are very important in helping to prevent the spread of cholera. The purpose of these training modules is to give community health workers (CHWs) tools to help their communities prevent cholera illnesses and deaths. These simple tools include information on cholera, oral rehydration solution, safe drinking water, handwashing, sanitation, safe water storage, food preparation, and handling a death from cholera that may occur in the home.

This brief provides a quick glance at the top 10 earthquakes globally by mortality as well as reported deaths by natural disaster types. It also provides the top 10 natural disasters in Haiti by mortality and presents commonly held myths about disasters and explains the realities.

This MMWR report includes post-earthquake surveillance findings on 25 reportable conditions and injuries throughout Haiti, discusses the method of establishing a surveillance system within two weeks of the earthquake, and describes its transition into a sustainable national surveillance system in Haiti. Without a timely surveillance system in Haiti, little was known about diseases and injuries following the January 12, 2010 earthquake. In collaboration with Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), the U.S.

This brief provides information regarding malaria in Haiti. It includes key recommendations on the subject, describes the situation in Haiti prior to the earthquake, and details the measures to be taken if there is an outbreak of malaria in the country.

The health consequences of inadequate water and sanitation services include an estimated 4 billion cases of diarrhea and 1.9 million deaths each year, mostly among young children in developing countries. Diarrheal diseases lead to decreased food intake and nutrient absorption, malnutrition, reduced resistance to infection, and impaired physical growth and cognitive development. Since 1996, a large body of work has been published that has examined the health impact of interventions to improve water quality at the point-of-use through household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS).

This document was developed by the Communicable Diseases Working Group on Emergencies (CD-WGE) at WHO/HQ. CD-WGE provides technical and operational support on communicable disease control to WHO regional and country offices, ministries of health, other United Nations agencies, and nongovernmental and international organizations.

This manual is intended to help health professionals and public health coordinators working in emergency situations prevent, detect and control the major communicable diseases encountered by affected populations. Emergencies include complex emergencies and natural disasters (e.g. floods and earthquakes). The term “complex emergencies” has been coined to describe “situations of war or civil strife affecting large civilian populations with food shortages and population displacement, resulting in excess mortality and morbidity”.

This Network Paper describes the practice and purpose of that branch of epidemiology concerned with population mortality. It sets out the key indicators used to express mortality data, different options for how to measure mortality rates and suggestions for how to assess, interpret and use mortality reports. The paper also discusses the politics of mortality figures.

This interagency handbook was developed by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Technical Support Network on Complex Emergencies. It focuses on effective malaria control responses to complex emergencies, particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international humanitarian assistance is greatest. It provides policy-makers, planners, fi eld programme managers and medical coordinators with practical guidance on designing and implementing measures to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality.

Includes information on risk factors, epidemiology for various diseases, and interventions.

This pc compact disk comprises the electronic (pdf) files of the entire series of Emergency publications produced by WEDC to date. This is an invaluable and handy resource for all aid and development workers. Controlling and Preventing Disease Erik Rottier and Margaret Ince Emergency Sanitation Peter Harvey, Sohrab Baghri and Bob Reed

The guidelines jointly prepared by the WHO Regional Offices for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific have been prepared specifically to assist infection control practitioners in the integrated management of hospital-associated infections prevention and control (for both curative and preventive activities such as good environmental practices like proper administration of health care wastes, water quality control, etc.) and to ensure that health care administrators understand the significance of infection control programmes.

Improving health is one of the main goals of water and environmental sanitation (WES) interventions. Despite this, many aid and development workers may have only a limited knowledge of the infections they try to prevent. Although the relevant information does exist, it is often scattered in specialised literature and rarely finds its way into the field.

This document presents the International Federation's global programme to help households build up their response to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Its aim is to help National Societies to situate themselves in the global Red Cross Red Crescent response, to prioritize and to bring to their attention the opportunities that exist to learn and develop.

This handbook has been written with the specific objective of providing practical guidance and an overview of vector control in emergency situations for relief workers and local personnel. It will enable them to develop the skills required to to plan and implement a vector control project in an emergency situation, where there is a vector-borne disease epidemic or the risk of a vector-borne disease epidemic.

This Manual is intended to inform operational agencies, donor agencies and field managers of the issues related to TB control in refugee situations. The Manual will serve as a tool in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of TB control programmes in refugee situations.

This Manual is intended to inform operational agencies, donor agencies and field managers of the issues related to TB control in refugee situations. The Manual will serve as a tool in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of TB control programmes in refugee situations.

The initial phase of a major emergency is crucial for the survival of victims and for determining the future path of assistance to the stricken community. Many organizations from within and outside the affected country send teams to assess the emergency situation and determine the kind of response required to relieve human suffering. The absence of a common, standardized technical tool for damage and needs assessment in this initial phase may result in contradictory information being channelled to national and international humanitarian agencies.

Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, group O-1 or O-139. Natural and man-made disasters which produce overcrowding, a scarcity of safe drinking water, improper elimination of human waste, and the contamination of food during or after its preparation are risk factors for the spread of the disease.

Provides recommendations for the control of tuberculosis in disaster situations.

Equine encephalitides are viral zoonoses that occur episodically and cause outbreaks in equines and, less frequently, in humans. The ethiological agents are viruses belonging to the genus Alphavirus in the Togaviridae family. Infection is maintained in natural foci between wild reservoirs anD mosquitoes.  Three viruses are important: Western equine (WEE), eastern equine (EEE) and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE).

Includes more than 650 publications or technical documents, in English, Spanish, and French, on a variety of health subjects related to the preparedness and response to emergencies and disasters, as well as disaster prevention and mitigation.

Provides information on the prevention of measles outbreaks among displaced persons.

Provides recommendations and guidelines for the safe handling of single-use syringes.

Recommendations of the PAHO/WHO Special Program for Vaccines and Immunization.

Natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions) can contribute to the transmission of some diseases provided the causative agent is already in the environment. Rapid changes in the human environment may occur also as a result of acts of war or of other man made circumstances including major industrial accident