On April 3, 2019 in Beira, Mozambique, a child receives vaccine for cholera as part of a UNICEF-supported immunization campaign in the wake of Cyclone Idai. made landfall in central Mozambique on March 14, 2019, displacing over 175,00 people and killing more than 1,000. As the powerful storm ripped through her hometown of Beira, Claudete Victoria, 26, fled with her three children. She said she never heard anything so cataclysmic in her life.
Claudete Victoria and her children ran for their lives when Cyclone Idai ripped through Beira, Mozambique on March 14, 2019.Zimbabe, Mozambique and Malawi are still reeling from the effects of flooding caused by Idai, which destroyed water distribution systems, pumping stations and boreholes. Damage to these water and sanitation systems has left residents highly susceptible to cholera, an infectious disease that's contracted from drinking water contaminated with fecal matter.
that reached over 800,000 people in four districts. These districts, made up mostly of temporary settlements, were targeted by the Ministry of Health because of their lack of access to safe water and sanitation.
UNICEFUSA An emergency cholera immunization campaign? Once again, doctors missed the mark. The vaxxer shots are neither necessary nor sufficient for basic hygiene. If children are not drinking water out of the same dirty river in which they are defecating, then cholera is not a concern.