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Global challenges and solutions to achieving and sustaining measles and rubella elimination

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health, ISSN: 1680-5348, Vol: 48, Page: e90
2024
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World Health Organization (WHO) Researchers Have Published New Data on Rubella (Global challenges and solutions to achieving and sustaining measles and rubella elimination)

2024 DEC 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Vaccine Daily -- Fresh data on rubella are presented in a new report.

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Measles and rubella have long been recognized as priorities for disease prevention because of their devastating consequences for child health; hence, all World Health Organization (WHO) regions currently have a goal to eliminate measles and four out of six WHO regions have a goal to eliminate rubella. Significant global progress has been made in the twenty-first century, with more than 40% of countries in the world verified by a Regional Verification Commission as having eliminated measles and more than 50% of countries having sustained rubella elimination. Making further progress will require addressing fundamental gaps in health systems, a particular challenge in the current global context where many countries face multiple barriers to both sustaining and achieving measles and rubella elimination. These challenges require a strategic shift toward a holistic approach that embeds immunization at the center of primary health care at all levels, which will have broad benefits beyond preventing measles and rubella. Progress will be supported through technological innovations such as microarray patch vaccines. Whether this holistic approach will be more effective than vertical initiatives at achieving measles and rubella elimination remains to be seen. Measles is so infectious and its immediate impact so visible on individuals and health systems that any weaknesses in global or national strategy are immediately evident. The tools exist to prevent every death from measles and every case of congenital rubella syndrome. Countries and partners – at all levels – share accountability for ensuring children are protected from these entirely preventable diseases.

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