WHO: Eliminating measles and strengthening health services in Cambodia
Feature
April 2013

Cambodia has found a way to immunize more children against measles and improve access to other health services.
Immunizing the last 20%

Excerpt
Cambodia almost doubled the number of children being immunized against measles in the ten years after 2000. But by 2011, 20% of the country’s children were still not getting even the first of the two vaccinations they need to protect them from measles.

In 2011, the WHO helped Cambodia’s National Immunization Programme use two nationwide measles immunization campaigns to check the vaccination status of women and children and to map out which communities were at highest risk of missing out on immunization. Most proved to be poor, and many were from ethnic minorities and internal migrant populations – groups who often found it hard to access regular health services…

Full text at: http://www.who.int/features/2013/cambodia_eliminating_measles/en/index.html