New Cholera Study Findings Reported from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Building and Rebuilding: The National Public Health Laboratory…

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New Cholera Study Findings Reported from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Building and Rebuilding: The National Public Health Laboratory Systems and Services Before and After the Earthquake and Cholera Epidemic, Haiti, 2009-2015)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Malaria Weekly -- Current study results on Digestive System Diseases and Conditions - Cholera have been published. According to news reporting originating from Port au Prince, Haiti, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Before the 2010 devastating earthquake and cholera outbreak, Haiti's public health laboratory systems were weak and services were limited. There was no national laboratory strategic plan and only minimal coordination across the laboratory network."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Laboratory capacity was further weakened by the destruction of over 25 laboratories and testing sites at the departmental and peripheral levels and the loss of life among the laboratory health-care workers. However, since 2010, tremendous progress has been made in building stronger laboratory infrastructure and training a qualified public health laboratory workforce across the country, allowing for decentralization of access to quality-assured services. Major achievements include development and implementation of a national laboratory strategic plan with a formalized and strengthened laboratory network; introduction of automation of testing to ensure better quality of results and diversify the menu of tests to effectively respond to outbreaks; expansion of molecular testing for tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, malaria, diarrheal and respiratory diseases; establishment of laboratory-based surveillance of epidemic-prone diseases; and improvement of the overall quality of testing."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Nonetheless, the progress and gains made remain fragile and require the full ownership and continuous investment from the Haitian government to sustain these successes and achievements."

For more information on this research see: Building and Rebuilding: The National Public Health Laboratory Systems and Services Before and After the Earthquake and Cholera Epidemic, Haiti, 2009-2015. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017;97(4_Suppl):21-27 (see also Digestive System Diseases and Conditions - Cholera).

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting F. Jean Louis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Additional authors for this research include J. Buteau, J. Boncy, R. Anselme, M. Stanislas, M.C. Nagel, S. Juin, M. Charles, R. Burris, E. Antoine, C. Yang, M. Kalou, J. Vertefeuille, B.J. Marston, D.W. Lowrance and V. Deyde.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0941. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Haiti, Cholera, Epidemiology, Public Health, Port au Prince, Vibrio Infections, North and Central America, Diagnostics and Screening, Gram Negative Bacterial Infections, Digestive System Diseases and Conditions.