K. Lisa Cairns

TL;DR: This paper presents strategies that may be used at the sub-national level to improve routine immunization programs and suggests how to improve service delivery.

TL;DR: Reaching and maintaining measles elimination in China will require strong political commitment and efforts for strengthening surveillance, increasing 2-dose vaccine coverage to >95%, stricter enforcement of the requirement to check immunization status at school entry, and careful attention to measles susceptibility in those aged ≥15 years.

TL;DR: Migration of children between Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso played a major role in the failure of the SIA to interrupt measles transmission and synchronization of measles control activities should be a high priority in countries with regions where much migration occurs.

TL;DR: These findings generally support ORI in middle- and low-income countries, however, the decision to conduct ORI and the nature and extent of the vaccination response need to be made on a case-by-case basis.

TL;DR: Although vaccine effectiveness might have been lower in HIV-infected than in uninfected children, population vaccine effectiveness remained high and failure to vaccinate enough of the population to prevent endemic measles transmission remained high.