The first use of the global oral cholera vaccine emergency stockpile: Lessons from South Sudan

Author(s)
Abubakar, A., Azman, A. S., Rumunu, J., Ciglenecki, I., Helderman, T., West, H., Lessler, J., Sack, D. A., Martin, S., Perea, W., Legros, D. and Luquero, F. J.
Date published
17 Nov 2015
Publisher
PLoS Medicine
Type
Articles
Keywords
Assessment & Analysis, Development & humanitarian aid, Epidemics & pandemics
Link
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001901

A global oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile was established in 2013 to improve rapid access to the vaccine in outbreaks and emergencies in which cholera risk is high. The first deployment from the global OCV stockpile was to South Sudan in 2014 because of high cholera risk from massive population displacements within the civil war.