Latin America and the Caribbean

Haiti receives long awaited cholera vaccine doses

This week, a year and half after the first few cholera cases ignited a national epidemic in Haiti, a small fraction of Haiti's at risk population got their first dose of the preventative cholera vaccine, Shanchol. 100,000 people in Port-au-Prince and a rural rice-growing community near St. Marc will eventually receive both doses of the oral vaccine.

Sabin’s First Vaccinology Course for Latin America

Participants gather for a “family photo” at Sabin’s First Vaccinology Course for Latin America, Lima, Peru, 12-16 December 2011.

Rotavirus vaccine saves lives in Mexico

Since the rotavirus vaccine was introduced in 2007, diarrhea-related deaths among Mexican children under the age of 5 have been cut nearly in half. In a letter released Wednesday, August 24, in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers provide evidence that confirms the vaccine’s role in this marked reduction.