Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seeing a massive spike in the number of children who have measles worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) found that there were 23 million more babies under one year old who missed their routine vaccinations—including against measles—in 2020 than in 2019. That number hasn’t been this high since 2009.
There are various reasons for this; in places like Afghanistan, cases are high partly due to conflict and damaged health infrastructure. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), inequitable access to preventive and basic health care services has fueled a cycle of measles outbreaks over the years. Some countries—Liberia, for example—may be feeling the direct effects of COVID-19's interruption of routine childhood vaccination campaigns.
The path forward is clear: Get vaccines into the arms of children who remain unprotected. Since 2006, MSF has vaccinated nearly 26 million children against measles. This year, MSF teams will continue their work to prevent and respond to measles outbreaks with reactive and proactive vaccinations and treatment. Read more at [ Ссылка ]
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