Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2019

Patel, Minal; Goodson, James L.; Alexander, James P.; Kretsinger, Katrina; Sodha, Samir V.; Steulet, Claudia; Gacic-Dobo, Marta; Rota, Paul A.; McFarland, Jeffrey; Menning, Lisa; Mulders, Mick N.; Crowcroft, Natasha S.

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“…2 At the end of 2020, WHO warned that the target set by the World Health Assembly to eliminate measles in five of six WHO regions would not be met. 3 Despite an improvement in vaccination coverage and a decrease in the incidence from 145 to 120 cases per million population between 2000 and 2019, we are far from the elimination target of maintaining less than 1 case per million nationally. The low vaccination coverage and still high incidence of measles translates to an estimated 207 500 measles deaths in 2019.…”

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Measles: the long walk to elimination drawn out by COVID-19

Gignoux¹,

Esso²,

Boum³

2021

The Lancet Global Health

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Measles: the long walk to elimination drawn out by COVID-19

Gignoux¹,

Esso²,

Boum³

2021

The Lancet Global Health

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“…The Expanded Program on Immunization has reduced the mortality and morbidity due to infectious diseases in all regions [ 2 , 3 ]. Nevertheless, many vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks are occurring in countries and regions of WHO [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. During 2000–2016, the annual reported measles incidence decreased globally, but the measles incidence increased in all regions of WHO during 2017–2019 [ 5 ].…”

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Vaccination Coverage for Routine Vaccines and Herd Immunity Levels against Measles and Pertussis in the World in 2019

Plans-Rubió

2021

Vaccines

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In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Global Vaccine Action Plan with the objective to promote essential vaccinations in all countries and achieve at least 90% vaccination coverage for all routine vaccines by 2020. The study assessed the mean percentages of vaccination coverage in 2019 for 13 routine vaccines, vaccination coverage variation from 2015 to 2019, and herd immunity levels against measles and pertussis in 2019 in countries and regions of WHO. In 2019, the mean percentages of vaccination coverage were lower than 90% for 10 (78.9%) routine vaccines. The mean percentages of vaccination coverage also decreased from 2015 to 2019 for six (46.2%) routine vaccines. The prevalence of individuals with vaccine-induced measles immunity in the target measles vaccination population was 88.1%, and the prevalence of individuals with vaccine-induced pertussis immunity in the target pertussis vaccination population was 81.1%. Herd immunity against measles viruses with Ro = 18 was established in 63 (32.5%) countries but not established in any region. Herd immunity against pertussis agents was not established in any country and in any region of WHO. National immunization programs must be improved to achieve ≥90% vaccination coverage in all countries and regions. Likewise, it is necessary to achieve ≥95% vaccination coverage with two doses of measles vaccines and three doses of pertussis vaccines in all countries and regions.

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“…The recently published global report card on measles-elimination progress attempts to paint a positive picture, celebrating the increase in global first-dose measles vaccine coverage from 72% to 86% during 2000-2019; a concurrent increase in global second-dose measles vaccine coverage from 18% in 2000 to 71% in 2019; and the estimated 25.5 million deaths from measles averted during this time period due to this increased coverage 3 .…”

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