Progress Toward Measles Elimination --- Pakistan, 2000--2018

Published on June 6, 2019

In 1997, the 21 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) passed a resolution during the 41st session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean to eliminate measles.

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