Cholera (Medecine Sans Frontiers Doctors Without Borders)
Sustainable Development Goals
Good Health and Well-being, Clean Water and Sanitation, Life On Land
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Putting cholera in context Cholera is a highly contagious disease that occurs in settings without clean water and proper sanitation—from poor, remote villages to overcrowded cities, refugee camps, and conflict zones. It causes profuse diarrhea and vomiting, and without treatment can quickly lead to death by intense dehydration. How MSF responds to cholera At MSF we started responding to cholera epidemics in the 1980s, and are gradually working to improve the effectiveness of our response. More recently one of our larger responses was in Haiti, where a cholera epidemic that began shortly after the devastating 2010 earthquake has so far caused over 800,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths. Thankfully there have been no new cases since February 2019, thanks to years of intensive efforts by Haitian health authorities and international organizations. Among our current projects, we are active in Yemen, which continues to face the world's largest cholera epidemic since modern record-keeping began in 1949. Amid ongoing full-scale war that caused the country's infrastructure and health care system to collapse, over 2 million people in Yemen have suffered from cholera since the outbreak's start in 2016.
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