Publications by authors named "Claudin Bertil"
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- The study evaluated the effectiveness of an HPV vaccination program for girls aged 9-14 in Haiti and identified factors influencing the completion of the two-dose series.
- Data were collected during vaccination campaigns in Port-au-Prince, analyzing 2,445 participants, with completion rates showing higher success in school-based programs compared to non-school programs.
- Factors like having started menstruation, previous visits to GHESKIO clinics, and participation in school programs significantly increased the likelihood of completing the vaccination series.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been postulated to alter the natural history of cholera, including increased susceptibility to infection, severity of illness, and chronic carriage of Vibrio cholerae Haiti has a generalized HIV epidemic with an adult HIV prevalence of 1.9% and recently suffered a cholera epidemic. We conducted a prospective study at the cholera treatment center (CTC) of GHESKIO in Haiti to characterize the coinfection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe first oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign, since its prequalification by the World Health Organization, in response to an ongoing cholera epidemic (reactive vaccination) was successfully conducted in a poor urban slum of approximately 70,000 inhabitants in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2012. Vaccine coverage was 75% of the target population. This report documents the impact of OCV in reducing the number of culture-confirmed cases of cholera admitted to the Groupe Haïtien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes (GHESKIO) cholera treatment center from that community in the 37 months postvaccination (April 2012-April 30, 2015).
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