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WHO Announces Steep Decline In Measles -Related Deaths
November 30, 2007 at 4:59 PM
General Health News
But the WHO warned that figures were still far too high in South Asia, singling out India and Pakistan for criticism.
Measles deaths between 2000 and 2006 in Africa dropped from 396,000 to just 36,000, contributing to a worldwide decline in measles deaths of 68 percent, according to the Geneva-based health organisation.
"This is a major victory, but our job is by no means done," Peter Strebel, measles officer for the WHO said.
"We need to expand the successful vaccination strategy used primarily in Africa to South Asia," he added.
"Large countries with high numbers of measles deaths, such as India and Pakistan, need to fully implement the proven control strategy," the WHO warned in a statement accompanying the report.
The WHO-led vaccination campaign is thought to have saved around 7.5 million lives. However, measles still kills nearly 600 children under five every day around the world.
Since 2000 nearly half a million children have been vaccinated in the 46 countries the most affected by measles, with "major gains" seen in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Ethiopia, Strebel said.
But the vaccination campaign has been less well-applied in South Asia, where more than half of new-born babies are never vaccinated.
South Asian measles deaths last year stood at 178,000 -- more than five times the African figure.
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