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After residents arrived sick with cholera to Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Haiti, PIH leaders organized outreach efforts to the remote community of Borneau to deliver care and support to patients and their families, who found it difficult to leave due to surrounding gang violence.

Security concerns for staff and transporting medical supplies have been among the most difficult challenges, with long delays for essential medicines and supplies.

The storm, reported to be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, has left more than 326 people dead in Malawi, with 796 injured and over 40,000 households affected.

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APZU, PIH's sister organization, with support from local health workers and leaders, shepherded the effort, from early detection and treatment of patients to community awareness and vaccine administration. 

The current outbreak, according to health leaders, is clearly the aftermath of Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Gombe that, earlier this year, caused torrential rain and flooding, leaving many people “no access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities and thus, at risk of widespread disease outbreaks including cholera,” the WHO reports.