Over 106,870 suspected measles cases have been reported in Republic of the Congo since 10 June and the Minister of Health declared a measles epidemic. There have been a sharp acceleration in the measl
June 14th, 2019 The WHO African Regional Commission for the Verification of Measles Elimination held its second meeting in Addis Abba, Ethiopia from 21-23 May 2019. The meeting was aimed to review cou
Copenhagen, 9 May 2019 WHO is scaling up its response to the ongoing measles outbreaks in the European Region, including by creating an operational platform to accelerate its support to affected count
Antananarivo/New York, 25 April 2019 – Over 7.2 million children have been vaccinated in an emergency response to an outbreak of measles that has claimed the lives of more than 884 people and is sus
29 November 2018 ¦ GENEVA/ATLANTA/NEW YORK Reported measles cases spiked in 2017, as multiple countries experienced severe and protracted outbreaks of the disease. This is according to a new report p
The Measles Rubella Initiative and the American Academy of Pediatrics co-hosted a side-meeting at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 23rd, 2018 to strengthen the partnership between national p
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is perennially near the top of the list of countries with confirmed cases of measles each year, resulting in one of the highest disease burdens in the world. A
A nationwide vaccination campaign is being conducted in Somalia to protect millions of children against the potentially deadly effects of measles. The WHO, UNICEF, national and local health authoritie
In 2017 Europe experienced a fourfold increase in measles cases across the region. Up from 5,273 in 2016 more than 21,000 confirmed measles cases and 35 deaths were recorded across ten European countr
Joint news release CDC/GAVI/UNICEF/WHO 26 OCTOBER 2017 | GENEVA │ NEW YORK │ ATLANTA – In 2016, an estimated 90 000 people died from measles – an 84% drop from more than 550 000 deaths in 2000