Balcha Masresha

TL;DR: In countries with ≥50% aMCV1 coverage compared with low-coverage countries, age shifted to older children and young adults; for infants, age decreased slightly with higher coverage; and with increasing coverage, there was a slight decrease in age in the 10th and 25th and moderate increase inAge in the 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles.

TL;DR: This poster presents a poster presented at the 2016 World Health Organization conference on Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme: Preparing for and Response to infectious disease in East and South Africa.

TL;DR: The measles resurgence highlighted challenges to achieving measles elimination in AFR by 2020 by strengthening routine immunization systems and conducting timely SIAs targeting expanded age groups, potentially including young adults, and maintaining outbreak preparedness to rapidly respond to outbreaks will be needed.

TL;DR: Prolonged and significant reduction in the number of children vaccinated poses a serious risk for outbreaks such as measles, and countries should monitor coverage trends at national and subnational levels, and undertake catch-up vaccination activities.

TL;DR: Suboptimal routine coverage and the wide interval between the catch-up and follow-up campaigns likely led to an accumulation of children susceptible to measles in Nigeria.