• The below is a description of elements included in the tool.
  • The full Excel-based, modifiable tool can be found at: www.gtfcc.org
  • This tool is designed to help teams estimate basic supply needs at a district level.

For each district, teams input the following elements:

  • Population
  • Cases and deaths reported to date
  • Estimated final cumulative incidence rate

The tool provides the following outputs per district and overall:

  • Estimated cases to the end of the outbreak (excluding those already reported)
  • Estimated needs
    • Sachets of ORS
    • Litres of Ringer’s Lactate
    • 100 mg tablets of doxycycline
    • 10 mg tablets of zinc
    • Number of beds during peak

For those ordering via UN procurement, a tool to help guide ordering of the WHO cholera kits is available here: https://www.who.int/cholera/kit/en/

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