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Impact of Mass Immunization Campaign in Measles-Endemic Areas: A Case-Study from Guangxi, China
Journal of Infectious Diseases (2011)
  • Jiatong Zhuo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Wenkui Geng, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Edward J. Hoekstra, United Nations Children's Fund
  • Zhigang Zheng, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Xiaofeng Liang, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Jian Zhang, Georgia Southern University
Abstract
Because of limited resources, each year during the period from 1999 through 2007, only about one-quarter of the 111 counties in Guangxi province were selected by means of risk assessment to participate in Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs), targeting children aged 8 months to 14 years during 1999–2003 and 8 months to 10 years during 2004–2007. Approximately 2 million doses of measles vaccines were administrated each year during SIAs. Estimated from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, with a reliable internal consistency over years, the average annual incidences of measles before SIAs (1993–1998), during the first phase (1999–2003), and during the second phase (2004–2007) were 16.05, 9.10, and 2.46 cases per 100,000, respectively. The overall provincewide annual incidence decreased by 84.67%, from 12.12 cases per 100,000 in 2000 to 2.10 cases per 100,000 in 2007. The percentage of counties with annual incidence ≥10 cases per 100,000 decreased from 55% in 1993 to <1% in 2007. Compared with the pre-SIA period, the greatest decrease in annual incidence was 83.93% for the 10–14.9-year-old group and the smallest decrease was 46.16% for children <1 year old. The multiple-year SIAs targeting children in selected high-risk counties were effective in controlling measles in mountainous, impoverished, and multiethnic measles-endemic areas.
Keywords
  • Child,
  • China,
  • Immunization,
  • Measles vaccine,
  • Risk assessment,
  • Measles
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 1, 2011
DOI
10.1093/infdis/jir063
Citation Information
Jiatong Zhuo, Wenkui Geng, Edward J. Hoekstra, Zhigang Zheng, et al.. "Impact of Mass Immunization Campaign in Measles-Endemic Areas: A Case-Study from Guangxi, China" Journal of Infectious Diseases Vol. 204 Iss. S1 (2011) p. S455 - S462 ISSN: 1537-6613
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jian_zhang1/11/