IVI's efforts to control cholera have gained momentum with the launch of the Cholera Vaccine Initiative (CHOVI) in late 2006. This new Initiative hopes to accelerate the introduction of safe and effective modern cholera vaccines to populations in cholera-endemic regions, as well as to prevent cholera epidemics during natural or man-made emergencies.

While the development and widespread use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) has greatly reduced cholera deaths in the past 30 years, the disease continues to be a scourge in many developing countries, killing an estimated 120,000 people world-wide each year...