Cholera, a globally infectious disease, has killed nearly 2,000 people in Yemen and affected more than 500,000 people since April 2017 alone. Nearly half of those affected are children under the age of 15. Although cholera is preventable, the ongoing political conflict (including a journalism ban), combined with the disintegration of the country’s health, sanitation, water, and food sectors, has impeded global response and sustainable peace. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard recently sponsored a podcast that brought together medical experts and humanitarian practitioners to discuss the devastating impact of this crisis on vulnerable populations.
Learn more about cholera by reading the Incubator’s Repository case study and related teaching tools on cholera in Haiti.