In January and July of 2014, ICC provided you with updates on the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Since cholera was introduced in 2010, the Pan American Health Organization reports that more than 731,000 people have been infected, leading the world in suspected cholera cases. They report that more than 8,700 people have died after contracting the disease.

ICC founders Jim and Virginia Snavely first visited Haiti in 1961 while on vacation. Overwhelmed by the plight of children with active tuberculosis (TB), they returned in 1965. 

World Malaria Day will be celebrated on April 25, 2015. On this day the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on the global health community to address major gaps in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria.

World Immunization Week, which promotes the use and awareness of vaccines to protect against disease, will be celebrated the last week of April from the 24th to the 30th. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization is "one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions."