Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination --- Worldwide, 2000--2017
by from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on (#43ZH6)
In 2010, the World Health Assembly set three milestones for measles prevention to be achieved by 2015: 1) increase routine coverage with the first dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV1) among children aged 1 year to a90% at the national level and to a80% in every district; 2) reduce global annual measles incidence to less than five cases per million population; and 3) reduce global measles mortality by 95% from the 2000 estimate (1).*