Study Aims to Find the Best Dose for Oral Cholera Vaccine

Not a Safe Drop to Drink

Without clean water and proper sanitation, many Zambian fishermen and their families are at serious risk for cholera. A joint research study supported by CCP aims to find better ways to protect them.

Cholera vaccine trials based in the Waya Health Clinic District in the Lukanga region of Zambia, Sponsored by John Hopkins University, DOVE project in partnership with CIRDRZ, Traveled to the Lukanga Swamp where many of the volunteers work as fishermen, went with Friday Mawape, 47 and Osward Musenge, 43, They visited a fisherman's hut to see how they are smoking fish, ask about how they get water and where they go to the bathroom, they also talk to them about the cholera trials. Many of the fishermen stay in the swamp for month or at a time Friday is in blue and in the foreground, he is helping the fisherman get water from the swamp.

October 4, 2018
By Stephanie Desmon

Without clean water and proper sanitation, many Zambian fishermen and their families are at serious risk for cholera. A joint research study between the Delivering Oral Vaccine Effectively (DOVE) project and the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia aims to find better ways to protect them.

Led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DOVE works globally to distribute oral cholera vaccine to the people most in need. The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs supports these efforts.

This spring, photographer Karen Kasmauski traveled to Zambia to document the lives of those involved in the study — and to demonstrate how challenging it is for the fishermen and their families to drink and bathe in clean water.