Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic

Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two milli...

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Autores principales: Lequechane, Joaquim Domingos, Mahumane, Arlete, Chale, Falume, Nhabomba, Crescêncio, Salomão, Cristolde, Lameira, Clemente, Chicumbe, Sérgio, Semá Baltazar, Cynthia
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32546268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00692-5
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author Lequechane, Joaquim Domingos
Mahumane, Arlete
Chale, Falume
Nhabomba, Crescêncio
Salomão, Cristolde
Lameira, Clemente
Chicumbe, Sérgio
Semá Baltazar, Cynthia
author_facet Lequechane, Joaquim Domingos
Mahumane, Arlete
Chale, Falume
Nhabomba, Crescêncio
Salomão, Cristolde
Lameira, Clemente
Chicumbe, Sérgio
Semá Baltazar, Cynthia
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description Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two million people were affected with over 600 deaths, hundreds of thousands of people displaced accompanied by rapid spread of cholera. We describe emergency measures taken by the Government of Mozambique, in collaboration with multilateral partners, to establish a real-time disease surveillance system, implement interventions recommended by a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) taskforce and rapidly scale up a massive community vaccination program to control a cholera epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-72987962020-06-17 Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic Lequechane, Joaquim Domingos Mahumane, Arlete Chale, Falume Nhabomba, Crescêncio Salomão, Cristolde Lameira, Clemente Chicumbe, Sérgio Semá Baltazar, Cynthia Infect Dis Poverty Letter to the Editor Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two million people were affected with over 600 deaths, hundreds of thousands of people displaced accompanied by rapid spread of cholera. We describe emergency measures taken by the Government of Mozambique, in collaboration with multilateral partners, to establish a real-time disease surveillance system, implement interventions recommended by a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) taskforce and rapidly scale up a massive community vaccination program to control a cholera epidemic. BioMed Central 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7298796/ /pubmed/32546268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00692-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Lequechane, Joaquim Domingos
Mahumane, Arlete
Chale, Falume
Nhabomba, Crescêncio
Salomão, Cristolde
Lameira, Clemente
Chicumbe, Sérgio
Semá Baltazar, Cynthia
Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
title Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
title_full Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
title_fullStr Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
title_full_unstemmed Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
title_short Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
title_sort mozambique’s response to cyclone idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (wash) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32546268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00692-5
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