Chorera, Haiti, the UN and British Red Cross

• After the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti in 2010, 1.3 million were made homeless, and so had to be put into temporary tents; 1 million were still living in this accommodation 1 year after the event.
• Peacekeeping troops from Nepal sent by the UN were working in the country as crowd control;

  Cholera endemic to Nepal, and so the troops had the bacteria in their system;

  after contaminating the water supply, these troops infected the whole of the camp.
• Before the earthquake, 86% of Port-Au-Prince residents lived in slums.
• Before 2010, there was not a single case of Cholera reported in Haiti;

  800000 Haitian people were diagnosed with Cholera between 2010 an 2014, and a further 9000 died.
• Red Cross response programme

  Delivered clean drinking water to 300000 people in shelters.

  Built 1300 toilets that served 250000 (1 toilet per 192 people)

  Treated 18700 cases of cholera in the camps.

  Utilised local radio, newspapers and other media to spread awareness.
• From 2011 there were 35000 cases a month, by 2014 this figure had fallen to 2200.
• Cholera remains the leading cause of infant mortality in Haiti.