who has recently declared that measles still is far from eradicated and that not to increase the efforts to this end, in 2012 it could lead to more than half a million deaths, little hopeful news taking into account, that years ago that are not heard news about this disease.
But the truth is that outbreaks in at least 31 countries in Africa, as well as United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam have been detected. The alert was launched at the World Assembly of the who in Geneva, where participants attributed this resurgence of the disease to the significant decrease ” financing for treatments and to the lack of political will among some Governments ”. Zimbabwe, Chad and Nigeria are the most affected States in the African continent, where since last June have been reported 1,100 deaths by measles and more than 64,000 cases. Is urgently needed an update in place to control these outbreaks and thus decrease mortality child.
The objectives that has set the who measles 2015 include reach 90 per cent coverage in the immunization campaigns in the nation and 80% in each district, thereby reducing measles cases to less than 5 per 1,000,000 and mortality by 95% compared to 2000 levels.
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