China has the momentum to eliminate measles

Dürrheim, David N; Xu, Aiqiang; Baker, Michael G; Hsu, Li Yang; Takashima, Yusuke

doi:10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100669

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“…China’s National Immunization Program was strong before the COVID-19 pandemic—able to reach nearly every child with timely vaccination. Evidence for immunization program strength is the likely elimination of measles following a sustained, decades-long effort [ 15 , 16 ]. But the COVID-19 vaccination campaign demonstrated resolutely that when adequately resourced and prioritized, the immunization program can do much more.…”

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Accelerating into Immunization Agenda 2030 with momentum from China’s successful COVID-19 vaccination campaign during dynamic COVID Zero

Rodewald

2023

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China's immunization programs conducted a unified, tightly coordinated COVID-19 vaccination campaign during the dynamic COVID Zero period that reached well over 90% of the population with vaccines having > 90% effectiveness against serious-to-fatal COVID-19. The campaign was eight times the size of the annual routine national immunization program, administering 3.4 billion doses of vaccines while monitoring vaccine coverage, acceptability, safety, and effectiveness. Every asset of the routine immunization program had to be strengthened and expanded to attain high coverage and reach hundreds of millions of adults who had not been vaccinated since childhood. Program strengthening and expansion were in directions aligned with the World Health Organization's Immunization Agenda 2030, which has a vision that "everyone, everywhere, at every age fully benefits from vaccines for good health and well-being" and requires reaching all children, adolescents, and adults with lifesaving vaccines. Momentum from this campaign should not be lost but should be invested into achieving what is possible with a properly resourced national immunization program that is now proven to be capable of reaching everyone in the world’s largest country throughout the life course, and to do so with all vaccines recommended by the World Health Organization. Graphical Abstract

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Section: China's Immunization Program Can Achieve the Ia2030 Visionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accelerating into Immunization Agenda 2030 with momentum from China’s successful COVID-19 vaccination campaign during dynamic COVID Zero

Rodewald

2023

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“…While Australia was verified to have eliminated endemic measles in 2014, 1 New Zealand in 2017 2 and Pacific Island Countries are targeting applying for verification in 2025, 3 all continue to remain at risk of measles importations from returning residents or overseas travellers. 3,4 This risk of importation rises with increasing global measles case numbers as was dramatically demonstrated during the last global measles resurgence in 2019.…”

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