This effort is supported by the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization, and other international organizations.

The work is being carried out in the municipalities of Belle-Anse and Grand-Gosier.

This strengthens local capacity for active case detection, community awareness, home disinfection, and the distribution of hygiene and water treatment products, the online newspaper Haiti Libre reported.

The parties involved organized training sessions for nurses on sample handling and rapid case detection and confirmation.

The Haitian Times, an online newspaper, recalled that Haiti went more than a century without a cholera case until 2010, when United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal contaminated the Artibonite River with infected sewage.

The outbreak spread rapidly, sickening some 820,300 people and killing nearly 10,000.

After years of coordinated public health efforts, Haiti reported its last confirmed case in January 2019.

The World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization declared the disease eliminated in February 2022.

That progress was reversed in October 2022, when new infections emerged in Port-au-Prince during a period of civil unrest and a deepening humanitarian crisis.

Cholera is now spreading again, particularly among people displaced by gang violence, highlighting the fragility of the country’s health system and the urgent need for access to safe water and sanitation in camps and high-risk areas.

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