Cholera
Key documentation and products developed by partners for supporting Community Engagement for Cholera Response
Situation
In 2025, the global cholera situation continues to pose a significant public health challenge across multiple regions.
Between 1 January and 17 August 2025, a total of 409 222 cholera cases and 4738 deaths were reported globally, from 31 countries. During the same period in 2024, 510 638 cases and 3248 deaths were reported from 28 countries, representing a 20% decrease in cases, but a 46% increase in deaths.
In 2025, the Eastern Mediterranean Region recorded the highest number of cholera cases (230 991 cases, six countries), followed by the African Region (172 750 cases, 23 countries), the South-East Asia Region (2985 cholera/AWD cases, five countries), and the Region of the Americas (2496 cases, one country). Cholera-related deaths were highest in the African Region (3763 deaths, CFR 2.2 %).
Cholera is resurging in a number of countries, including some that haven’t reported substantial case numbers in previous years, including Chad and the Republic of the Congo, while others, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Sudan, are experiencing outbreaks that are continuing from 2024, with significant geographic expansion.
Source: www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2025-DON579
Monthly Africa Infodemic Trends Reports available here.
KEY RESOURCES
A Rapid Assessment Tool: Monitoring Menstrual Hygiene Management Programming in Emergencies- PHAST training and information
- Practical Approaches – Rapid Appraisal of Key Health-Seeking Behaviours in Epidemics
- Practical Approaches – Rapid Anthropological Assessments in the Field
- Practical Approaches – Rapid Remote Context Analysis Tool (RR-CAT) in Epidemics
- Cholera Roadmap January 2021
Cholera Quantitative Questions Bank Community Quant 2- Cholera Questions Bank – Qualitative questions for responders
- Cholera Questions Bank – Qualitative questions for community level data collection
- Social, behavioural and community dynamics related to the cholera outbreak in Malawi
- Lessons Learned Summary – Social Science Lessons Learned from Cholera Epidemics
- Core questions on water, sanitation and hygiene for household surveys
- Social, behavioural and community dynamics related tothe cholera outbreak in Malawi
- Behavioural and socialdrivers of vaccination
- Cholera Roadmap – January 2021 – Research Agenda
- Ending Cholera – A Global Roadmap To 2030
- Rapid response teams: A UNICEF experience
- Lessons Learned Summary – Social Science Lessons Learned from Cholera Epidemics
- Guide for Developing an SBC Strategy
- Cholera Outbreak Response – Field Manual
- Identifying transferable lessons from cholera epidemic responses, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2015 – 2018: a scoping review
- BHA Builidng Trust – Haiti : Interim report (Jan 2023)
- Regional Framework For The Implementation Of The Global Strategy For Cholera Prevention And Control
- Identifying transferable lessons from cholera epidemic responses, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2015 – 2018: a scoping review
- Distribution of hygiene kits during a cholera outbreak in Kasai-Oriental, Democratic Republic of Congo: a process evaluation
- Health-seeking behaviours in Sofala and Manica in relation to cyclone Idai response
- Rapid response teams: A UNICEF experience
- Social, behavioural and community dynamics related to the cholera outbreak in Malawi
- Lessons Learned Summary: Social Science Lessons Learned from Cholera Epidemics
- Social, behavioural and community dynamics related to the cholera outbreak in Malawi
- Case Study: Enhancing Community, Engagement Through; Data Collection: Controlling the Cholera, Epidemic in Mozambique
- Community-Based Health Survey in Liberia, Part 1: A Quantitative Study
- Cultural influences behind cholera transmission in the Far North Region, Republic of Cameroon: a field experience and implications for operational level planning of interventions
- Innovative vaccine delivery strategies in response to a cholera outbreak in the challenging context of Lake Chilwa. A rapid qualitative assessment
- Innovative vaccine delivery strategies
- A rapid qualitative assessment of oral cholera vaccine
KNOWLEDGE HUBS ON CHOLERA
Example Link #1
Tools and learning on Cholera Control from GTFCC
Global Task Force on Cholera Control
Tools and learning on Cholera Control from GTFCC
