{"id":29573,"date":"2026-09-28T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=29573"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:29:57","slug":"who-highlights-ugandas-efforts-to-close-gaps-in-measles-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=29573","title":{"rendered":"WHO Highlights Uganda&#8217;s Efforts to Close Gaps in Measles Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Uganda is expanding efforts to reach children who remain unvaccinated against measles after the country recorded <strong>66 separate measles outbreaks in 2025<\/strong>, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">WHO said outbreaks disproportionately affected young children who had not received even a first measles vaccine dose. Health authorities are using lessons from repeated outbreaks to improve vaccination coverage and identify communities where children are being missed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The WHO report highlights challenges beyond vaccine demand, including difficulties in reaching underserved populations and gaps in routine immunization services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Uganda&#8217;s experience illustrates the continuing importance of routine vaccination systems as countries work to prevent measles outbreaks and protect children from vaccine-preventable disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Support independent journalism:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Support HRNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> This report is based on publicly available information and official WHO sources. HRNW is an independent news platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda is expanding efforts to reach children who remain unvaccinated against measles after the country recorded 66 separate measles outbreaks in 2025, according to the World Health Organization. WHO said outbreaks disproportionately affected young children who had not received even a first measles vaccine dose. Health authorities are using lessons from repeated outbreaks to improve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29575,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573\/revisions\/29575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}