Cholera Epidemic That Rocked Haiti Essay

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S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are part of the reason as to why the disease prevention efforts in Haiti are very successful.

Despite this level of success, the Haitian disease prevention efforts are faced with several challenges. The challenges include shortage of human resource, widespread poverty as well as very limited infrastructure. The Haitians successful disease treatment and prevention programs such as the Partners in Health model (community-based care), the Gheskio model of integrated care, prevention of mother-to-child transmission as well as the use of antiretroviral therapy are currently being replicated around the world. Early warning systems have also been developed and deployed.Joint efforts have been initiated in Cholera prone areas to help in reducing the impact and number of cases of the disease.
These actions are noted by WHO (2012) to have helped in reducing the mortality rate from 22.4% in 2010 to 1.4% in 2011. This is a huge success!

Conclusion

The prevalence of diseases such as HIV in Haiti is indeed declining. This can be attributed to the improvement in detection, prevention as well as testing techniques. Financial, donor funding has played a role in the success of the prevention programs. The successes would not have realized without the presence of highly dependable and high quality health care programs in the nation......

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