Publications by authors named "Moti Edosa"
Background: Cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia necessitate frequent mass oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaigns. Despite this, there is a notable absence of a comprehensive summary of these campaigns. Understanding national OCV vaccination history is essential to design appropriate and effective cholera control strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Ethiopian government has developed the multisectoral cholera elimination plan (NCP) with an aim of reducing cholera incidence and case fatality rate (CFR). To better understand and monitor the progress of this plan, a comprehensive review of national cholera epidemiology is needed.
Methods: Reported data on cholera/acute watery diarrhea (AWD) cases in the past 20 years were extracted from the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and World Health Organization databases.
Article Synopsis
- Cholera continues to be a major public health threat in Ethiopia, affecting over 15.9 million people and resulting in consistent annual outbreaks; the ongoing crisis saw over 30,000 cases reported in 2023.
- The Ethiopian government aims to eliminate cholera through its National Cholera Elimination Plan (NCP) from 2022 to 2028, with objectives for zero local transmission and a 90% reduction in fatalities.
- The NCP focuses on enhancing water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure, alongside a comprehensive cholera vaccination strategy, but faces difficulties such as financial constraints and vaccine shortages.
Article Synopsis
- - Cholera has significantly impacted Ethiopia between 2015 and 2023, with around 100,000 cases and over 1,000 deaths, highlighting the urgent need to study water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) factors that contribute to outbreaks.
- - A survey of 870 households in Shashemene Town revealed that access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities was limited, and better WaSH conditions were linked to urban living, higher education, and wealth.
- - The study found no significant link between basic WaSH access and cholera attack rates, suggesting that while improvements in WaSH are needed, further research with larger samples is required to better understand their relationship with cholera cases.
Cholera continues to represent a major public health concern in Ethiopia. The country has developed a Multi-sectoral National Cholera Elimination Plan in 2022, which targets prevention and control interventions in cholera hotspots. Multiple methods to classify cholera hotspots have been used in several countries.
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- * Major factors contributing to cholera transmission included limited access to clean water and sanitation, as well as severe weather events like droughts and floods.
- * The research sheds light on how cholera spreads between Ethiopia and neighboring countries, and aims to inform better strategies for controlling and eliminating cholera in the region.
Cholera remains a significant public health problem among the vulnerable populations living in many resource-limited settings with poor access to safe and clean water and hygiene practice. Around 2.86 million cholera cases and 95,000 deaths are estimated to occur in endemic countries.
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