Table 1.
Characteristics of patients admitted at the GHESKIO CTC: April 2012–April 2015
| Acute diarrhea | Total (%) | Confirmed cholera cases | Total (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCV area | Out of OCV area | OCV area | Out of OCV area | |||
| Female | 334 | 1,267 | 1,601/3,255 (49) | 197 | 674 | 871/1,788 (49) |
| Male | 339 | 1,315 | 1,654/3,255 (51) | 191 | 726 | 917/1,788 (51) |
| Age > 5 years | 592 | 2,319 | 2,911/3,255 (89) | 364 | 1,316 | 1,680/1,788 (94) |
| Age < 5 years | 81 | 263 | 344/3,255 (11) | 24 | 84 | 108/1,788 (6) |
| Total | 673 | 2,582 | 3,255 | 388 | 1,400 | 1,788 |
| HIV testing performed on N = 3,036 patients | ||||||
| HIV+ | 44 | 153 | 197 | 21 | 46 | 67 (34) |
GHESKIO CTC = Groupe Haïtien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes cholera treatment center; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; OCV = oral cholera vaccine.