Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2016
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Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2016

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    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
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    The fourth United Nations Millennium Development Goal, adopted in 2000, set a target to reduce child Mortality by two thirds by 2015. One indicator of progress toward this target was measles vaccination coverage (1). In 2010, the World Health Assembly (WHA) set three milestones for measles control by 2015: 1) increase routine coverage with the first dose of a measles-containing vaccine (MCV1) among children aged 1 year to ≥90% at the national level and to ≥80% in every district; 2) reduce global annual measles incidence to <5 cases per million population; and 3) reduce global measles Mortality by 95% from the 2000 estimate (2).* In 2012, WHA endorsed the Global Vaccine Action Plan,| with the objective of eliminating measles in four World Health Organization (WHO) regions by 2015 and in five regions by 2020. Countries in all six WHO regions have adopted goals for measles elimination by or before 2020. Measles elimination is defined as the absence of endemic measles Virus Transmission in a region or other defined geographic area for ≥12 months, in the presence of a high quality Surveillance system that meets targets of key performance indicators. This report updates a previous report (3) and describes progress toward global measles control milestones and regional measles elimination goals during 2000-2016. During this period, annual reported measles incidence decreased 87%, from 145 to 19 cases per million persons, and annual estimated measles deaths decreased 84%, from 550,100 to 89,780; measles vaccination prevented an estimated 20.4 million deaths. However, the 2015 milestones have not yet been met; only one WHO region has been verified as having eliminated measles. Improved implementation of elimination strategies by countries and their partners is needed, with focus on increasing vaccination coverage through substantial and sustained additional investments in health systems, strengthening Surveillance systems, using Surveillance data to drive programmatic actions, securing political commitment, and raising the visibility of measles elimination goals.
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    MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 66(42):1148-1153.
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    29073125
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    PMC5689104
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