Since its arrival in Haiti two years ago, "cholera has sickened more than 600,000 people and killed more than 7,500," and "[t]his year the epidemic is on track to be among the world's worst again, with nearly 77,000 cases and 550 deaths, according to the Haitian Ministry of Health," Ralph Ternier and Cate Oswald of Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health in Haiti write in the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog. "Despite the decrease in cases from 2011, every new case represents an unnecessary and preventable infection and an even further potential of completely preventable and unnecessary death in hardest-to-reach areas," they state. Though a "multi-pronged approach" to treating and preventing cholera has significantly decreased the number of cases, "[t]he sad reality is that ... we know that cholera is not going away, [yet] emergency funding for cholera is," they write.