REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Provisional Agenda item 19.3
Sixty-third Session Bangkok, Thailand 7–10 September 2010
SEA/RC63/18 Addendum 7 September 2010
Follow-up action on pending issues and selected Regional Committee resolutions/decisions for the last three years: South-East Asia regional efforts on measles elimination (SEA/RC62/R3) This paper reflects updated measles incidence and measles immunization coverage figures (Tables 1 and 2) incorporating data that have become available since the preparation of working paper SEA/RC63/18.
SEA/RC63/18 Addendum
Table 1: Reported measles incidence per 100 000 population by country in the South-East Asia Region (1999-2009) Country Bangladesh Bhutan DPR Korea India Indonesia Maldives Myanmar Nepal Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste SEAR 1999 4.20 495.09 0.00 5.10 2.28 0.00 1.69 0.00 13.11 5.25 0.00 5.12 2000 3.70 20.26 0.00 3.82 22.59 6.87 1.81 39.96 88.88 6.69 0.00 7.98 2001 3.13 35.58 0.00 5.01 10.07 0.00 0.00 45.09 1.65 11.89 0.00 6.19 2002 2.66 3.77 0.00 3.84 9.21 342.83 1.41 27.94 0.74 16.31 0.00 5.22 2003 3.06 0.00 0.00 4.40 11.44 26.73 1.56 53.78 0.34 7.25 0.00 5.90 2004 7.24 0.40 0.00 5.01 13.48 12.78 2.35 49.25 0.18 6.20 4.83 6.89 2005 18.64 1.46 0.00 5.10 7.23 474.90 0.55 20.02 0.02 5.35 21.99 6.64 2006 4.37 0.00 0.00 5.46 9.21 15.72 1.30 11.06 0.00 5.63 9.15 5.68 2007 2.03 1.67 14.94 3.59 8.62 6.56 1.88 5.39 0.21 6.22 0.00 4.35 2008 1.81 1.04 0.34 4.68 6.73 0.00 0.56 7.79 0.16 11.10 0.00 4.74 2009 0.49 0.88 0.00 NR 8.61 1.91 0.36 0.69 0.10 9.57 NR 4.14
Source: Population: 1999-2001-United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Population Prospects the 2002 revision; 2002 onwards - WHO/SEARO Annual EPI Reporting Form (AERF); Measles Cases: WHO/UNICEF JRF NR=Not Reported
Table 2: Measles vaccination coverage (%) during infancy by country in the South-East Asia Region (1990-2009) Country Bangladesh Bhutan DPR Korea India Indonesia Maldives Myanmar Nepal Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste 1990 65 93 98 56 58 96 68 57 80 80 ND 2000 76 76 78 54 72 99 84 71 99 94 ND 2001 77 78 92 55 70 98 73 71 99 94 ND 2002 75 78 98 56 72 97 77 71 99 94 56 2003 76 88 95 59 74 96 76 75 99 96 55 2004 81 87 95 61 76 97 78 73 96 96 55 2005 88 93 96 64 78 97 72 74 99 96 48 2006 83 90 96 70 80 97 78 85 99 96 64 2007 89 95 99 70 80 97 81 81 98 96 63 2008 89 99 98 70 83 97 82 79 98 98 73 2009* 88 98 NA NR 82 98 87 90 97 98 73
Source: 1990-2008: WHO/UNICEF Coverage Estimates; *2009: Country Official Estimates NR=Not Reported; NA=Not available in the report; ND=No data