TY - JOUR AU - S Vasudevan PY - 2017/09/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Measles Rubella Vaccine National Campaign JF - Kerala Medical Journal JA - KMJ VL - 10 IS - 3 SE - Editorial DO - 10.52314/kmj.2017.v10i3.39 UR - https://www.keralamedicaljournal.com/index.php/KMJ/article/view/39 AB - India has attained impressive milestones through immunisation and continues with its efforts to achieve comprehensive immunisation coverage for a birth cohort of 27 million children through the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). Immunisation is one of the most effective public health intervention strategies for protection of children especially under 5 years of age from life threatening conditions which are preventable. Despite high vaccination levels for each individual vaccines, India’s full vaccination coverage levels has plateaued around 65% (RSOC 2013-14) in the last few years with slow progress thus contributing to continued high burden of morbidity and mortality in children from vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) ER -