6th Meeting of the GTFCC Working Group on Oral Cholera Vaccine

Summary

The 6th Meeting of the Global Task Force for Cholera Control (GTFCC) Working Group on Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) took place in Geneva on December 3-4, 2019.

The meeting objectives were to review the implementation of OCV campaigns; to discuss renewal and harmonization of the current mechanisms for accessing the OCV stockpile; to review the current and future supply of, and demand for, vaccines; and to refine and prioritize the OCV research agenda, including for the development of new vaccines.

After assessing the achievements of the past year, discussing feedback from countries representatives about their OCV campaign in depth, and hearing updates from partner agencies, vaccine developers, researchers and funders, the group defined a list of tasks to be addressed in the coming year. These included:

achieving consensus on the conditions and procedures for accessing the OCV stockpile;
reviewing success stories of OCV implementation and using them to help support further campaigns; especially improve timing for campaign implementation
continuing work on the integration of OCV with provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH);
strengthening cholera surveillance in countries and globally and the monitoring and evaluation of OCV campaigns;
further development of the OCV research agenda in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, and identification of further opportunities to implement research;

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6th Meeting of the GTFCC Working Group on Oral Cholera Vaccine

Summary

Resources

Day 1 - Tuesday, December 3

Day 2 - Wednesday, December 4

Session 1: General Update from the GTFCC

Update from the GTFCC Secretariat

Update from the Chair of the Working Group

Session 2: Overview of OCV campaigns in 2019

Overview of the OCV campaigns in 2019

Update on 2019 ICG requests

Update on vaccines shipment

Session 3: Lessons learnt from the field on OCV campaigns

Panel 1: Timing of campaigns - Democratic Republic of Congo

Panel 1: Timing of campaigns - Nigeria

Panel 1: Timing of campaigns - Sudan

Panel 2: Accessing the OCV stockpile - Ethiopia

Panel 2: Accessing the OCV stockpile - Mozambique

Panel 2: Accessing the OCV stockpile - Bangladesh

Session 4: Integration of OCV and WASH

Integration of WASH and OCV during emergency campaigns

Example of WASH activities implementation during an OCV campaign

Example of WASH activities implementation during an OCV campaign

One WASH Initiative

Cholera hotspots: prioritizing interventions

Session 6: Update on vaccine supply and development

Vaccine development

Update on PaxVax development

Session 7: Current Research projects

Cholera updates from Johns Hopkins Groups

Economic evaluation of OCV use: ongoing IVI studies

Epicentre/MSF research projects

Session 8: Defining research questions

Funding cholera research and the Global Research Agenda for cholera

Cholera vacinne research priorities

Agenda of Work

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6th Meeting of the GTFCC Working Group on Oral Cholera Vaccine

Summary

Resources

Day 1 - Tuesday, December 3

Day 2 - Wednesday, December 4

Session 1: General Update from the GTFCC

Update from the GTFCC Secretariat

Update from the Chair of the Working Group

Session 2: Overview of OCV campaigns in 2019

Overview of the OCV campaigns in 2019

Update on 2019 ICG requests

Update on vaccines shipment

Session 3: Lessons learnt from the field on OCV campaigns

Panel 1: Timing of campaigns - Democratic Republic of Congo

Panel 1: Timing of campaigns - Nigeria

Panel 1: Timing of campaigns - Sudan

Panel 2: Accessing the OCV stockpile - Ethiopia

Panel 2: Accessing the OCV stockpile - Mozambique

Panel 2: Accessing the OCV stockpile - Bangladesh

Session 4: Integration of OCV and WASH

Integration of WASH and OCV during emergency campaigns

Example of WASH activities implementation during an OCV campaign

Example of WASH activities implementation during an OCV campaign

One WASH Initiative

Cholera hotspots: prioritizing interventions

Session 6: Update on vaccine supply and development

Vaccine development

Update on PaxVax development

Session 7: Current Research projects

Cholera updates from Johns Hopkins Groups

Economic evaluation of OCV use: ongoing IVI studies

Epicentre/MSF research projects

Session 8: Defining research questions

Funding cholera research and the Global Research Agenda for cholera

Cholera vacinne research priorities

Agenda of Work

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