Since the mid-1970s, the widespread establishment and implementation of the Expanded
Programme on Immunization (EPI) has led to remarkable achievements in controlling …

Background The seventh reported outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the equatorial
African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began on July 26, 2014, as …

Vaccines have made a major contribution to public health, including the eradication of one
deadly disease, small pox, and the near eradication of another, poliomyelitis. Through the …

Despite achieving and sustaining global measles vaccination coverage of about 80% over
the past decade, worldwide measles remains the fifth leading cause of mortality among …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost of scaling up childhood immunization services required to
reach the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) goal of reducing …

In 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Millennium Development Goals
(MDG), with MDG4 being a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by 2015, and with measles …

In 2010, the World Health Assembly established three milestones toward global measles
eradication to be reached by 2015: 1) increase routine coverage with the first dose of …

The article provides details on activities geared toward the reduction of global measles
mortality from 2000 to 2008. Information on the goal of the United Nations (UN) Millennium …

Despite the major public health effect of the scale-up of available control measures, malaria
remains the largest single cause of child mortality in many settings in Africa. 1 More than 3 …

Child mortality has decreased substantially globally—from 12.6 million in 1990 to 6.3 million
in 2013—due, in large part to of governments' and organisations' work, to prevent …