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Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation
Dissertation (MMed)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29786 Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation upetd@up.ac.za Eggers, Rudolf Richard Mass Strategies Implementation South africa Measles elimination Policy UCTD Dissertation (MMed)--University of Pretoria, 2013. With the advent of an effective and safe vaccine against measles, the control of measles has been astounding. In several countries the success of immunisation have led to the attempt to eliminate measles transmission entirely, through the use of vaccination strategies originally developed in the polio eradication programme. These strategies are to increase and maintain high routine coverage, to conduct periodic supplemental mass immunisation campaigns and case based, laboratory confirmed surveillance. In South Africa, measles mass vaccination was added to the existing polio mass vaccination campaigns in 1996 and 1997, and the combined strategies were formulated for the South African context in this document. This document is targeted at decision makers in the national and provincial Departments of Health, to enable a coordinated and effective South African measles elimination programme. Immunology unrestricted 2013-09-07T16:37:42Z 2013-01-08 2013-09-07T16:37:42Z 1998-09-05 2013-01-08 2012-11-24 Dissertation Eggers, RR 1998, Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation, MMed dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29786 > E12/9/345/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29786 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11242012-153314/ © 1998 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Mass Strategies Implementation South africa Measles elimination Policy UCTD Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation |
| title | Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation |
| title_full | Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation |
| title_fullStr | Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation |
| title_short | Measles elimination in South Africa : policy and implementation |
| title_sort | measles elimination in south africa policy and implementation |
| topic | Mass Strategies Implementation South africa Measles elimination Policy UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29786 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11242012-153314/ |