BackgroundThe WHO Regional Office for the Africa Immunization Technical Advisory Group, in 2011, adopted measles control and elimination goals all countries of African region to achieve 2015 2020 respectively. Our aim was track current status progress towards milestones across 15 west between 2001 2019.MethodsWe did a retrospective multicountry series analysis national immunisation coverage cas...

In Maputo city, immunization is available at government health facilities, all contacts being used to vaccinate children. Door-to-door mobilization is conducted to identify eligible children and refer them for immunization. Card-documented measles vaccine coverage, estimated by community surveys, rose from 48% in 1982 to 86% in 1986 and 92% in 1992. The median age at measles vaccination was 10....

BACKGROUND In Nigeria, a system of measles case-based surveillance with laboratory confirmation of suspected cases was introduced in 2005 as one of the strategies for the control of measles morbidity and mortality. In this report, we provide an epidemiological distribution of confirmed cases of measles reported from the southwest of the country between 2007 and 2012, and predict the expected nu...

The impact of a mass vaccination campaign against measles-rubella in England and Wales was assessed using the results of a saliva test for measles-specific IgM, which was offered to all notified cases of measles. By means of clinical data supplied by the reporting doctors, we estimated the sensitivity and specificity of various clinical case definitions in predicting a confirmed case. A saliva ...

Hamed Ramezani A., MSc1; Alireza Atarodi B., MSc2; Mahdi Moshki, PhD3 1. Control Disease Unit of Health Deputy, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran 2. School of Paramedical Sciences, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran 3. School of Health, Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran Received: No...

The aetiology of Crohn’s disease is unknown. Any hypothesis must take into account the continuing increase in incidence in some countries, including the UK. The increase aVects the population from early teens, and specific comprehensive epidemiological studies in children and adolescents show a continuing rise in the rate of age and sex standardised incidence in Scotland. This suggests an envir...

BACKGROUND The 37 countries and areas of the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region have targeted measles for elimination by 2012. METHODS We reviewed routine and supplementary immunization coverage based on 2010 WHO/United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates and Joint Reporting Forms and epidemiologic and laboratory data submitted by the countries and areas. RESULTS...

This article briefly reviews the history and epidemiology of measles, mumps and rubella disease and the case for introducing combination measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine into the national childhood immunization schedule in South Africa. Despite adopting the World Health Organization's Measles Elimination strategy in 1996 and achieving a significant decrease the incidence of measles, added ef...

The continued elimination of measles requires accurate assessment of its epidemiology and a critical evaluation of how its incidence is changing with time. National surveillance of measles in the United States between 2001 and 2011 provides data on the number of measles introductions and the size of the resulting transmission chains. These data allow inference of the effective reproduction numb...

In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the European Region (EUR) revised earlier targets to eliminate indigenous measles and achieve rubella control by resolving to 1) eliminate both diseases in EUR member states by 2010, using a combination of routine and supplementary immunization strategies, and 2) monitor progress toward this goal through improved surveillance. ...