Editing Cholera (section)

=== Global Strategy ===
In 2017, the WHO launched the "Ending Cholera: a global roadmap to 2030" strategy which aims to reduce cholera deaths by 90% by 2030.<ref name="who_fact">{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cholera|title = Cholera}}</ref> The strategy was developed by the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) which develops country-specific plans and monitors progress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gtfcc.org/|title=Global Task Force on Cholera Control|website=www.gtfcc.org}}</ref> The approach to achieve this goal combines surveillance, water sanitation, rehydration treatment and oral vaccines.<ref name="who_fact" /> Specifically, the control strategy focuses on three approaches: i) early detection and response to outbreaks to contain outbreaks, ii) stopping cholera transmission through improved sanitation and vaccines in hotspots, and iii) a global framework for cholera control through the GTFCC.<ref name="who_fact" />

The WHO and the GTFCC do not consider global cholera [[eradication of infectious diseases|eradication]] a viable goal.<ref>{{Cite report |title=Ending Cholera a Global Roadmap to 2030|publisher=Global Task Force on Cholera Control |date=2017 |url=https://www.who.int/cholera/publications/global-roadmap.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018143604/http://www.who.int/cholera/publications/global-roadmap.pdf |archive-date=2017-10-18 |url-status=live |page=18}}</ref> Even though humans are the only host of cholera, the bacterium can persist in the environment without a human host.<ref name="Sack">{{cite journal |last1=Sack |first1=D. A. |title=A new era in the history of cholera: the road to elimination |journal=International Journal of Epidemiology |date=1 December 2013 |volume=42 |issue=6 |pages=1537–1540 |doi=10.1093/ije/dyt229 |pmid=24415587 |doi-access=free }}</ref> While global eradication is not possible, elimination of human to human transmission may be possible.<ref name="Sack" /> Local elimination is possible, which has been underway most recently during the [[2010s Haiti cholera outbreak]]. Haiti aims to achieve certification of elimination by 2022.<ref>{{cite book |title=National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in Haiti 2013-2022 |date=February 2013 |publisher=Republic of Haiti, Ministry of Public Health and Population, National Directorate for Water Supply and Sanitation |url=https://www.paho.org/hq/dmdocuments/2013/cholera-haiti-nat-plan-elim-2013-2022.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629005315/https://www.paho.org/hq/dmdocuments/2013/cholera-haiti-nat-plan-elim-2013-2022.pdf |archive-date=2018-06-29 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The GTFCC targets 47 countries, 13 of which have established vaccination campaigns.<ref name="who_report2020">{{cite book |title=International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision for Cholera, Meningitis, and Yellow Fever |date=September 2020 |publisher=World Health Organization |isbn=978-92-4-002916-3 |url=https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240029163 }}</ref>