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Since August 2015, the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) of Tanzania has been leading the response to a widespread cholera outbreak. As of June 9, 2016, cholera had affected 23 of 25 regions in Tanzania, with 21,750 cumulative cases and 341 deaths reported (Ally Nyanga, MoHCDGEC Emergency Operations Center, personal communication, June 2016). Approximately one fourth of all cases occurred in the Dar es Salaam region on the east coast. Regions surrounding Lake Victoria, in the north, also reported high case counts, including Mwanza with 9% (Ally Nyanga, MoHCDGEC Emergency Operations Center, personal communication, June 2016). Since the start of the outbreak, MoHCDGEC and the Ministry of Water (MOW) have collaborated with the Tanzania Red Cross Society, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), and CDC to enhance the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) response to prevent the further spread of cholera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on chlorination methods for drinking water during a cholera epidemic in Tanzania in 2016. It mentions the cooperation of the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and the Ministry of Water (MOW) with other agencies to improve the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response to the cholera outbreak, the bulk chlorination strategy in Dar es Salaam and the household water treatment strategy in Mwanza.