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The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) announced Tuesday a 30% reduction in deaths due to measles worldwide between 1999 and 2002.

In a joint press release, the two UN agencies noted that this reduction had reached 35% in Africa, the region with the most people affected by this disease.

This progress is due to the adoption by the countries most affected of a comprehensive WHO / UNICEF, which consists of an opening vaccinnale routine at least 80% of children, says the press release.

This strategy, which spends about $ 140 million, helped immunize more than 145 million children during the period 1999-2002 in 21 of the 45 countries most affected.

These developments show, the statement said that the international community can achieve the target set by the UN to halve the total number of deaths from measles by the end of 2005.

However, WHO and UNICEF were requested not to relax vigilance because measles remained the leading cause of preventable death among children.

(Xinhua)

世卫组织/联合国儿童基金会：30人死于麻疹％减少全球

世界卫生组织（WHO）和联合国儿童基金（UNICEF）今天宣布，在麻疹造成的死亡在1999年至2002年全球30％的减幅。

在一份联合新闻稿，这两个联合国机构指出，这一减少在非洲已经达到35％，与这一疾病影响的大多数人地区。

这一进展是由于多数通过了一项全面的卫生组织/儿童基金会，哪一个开幕vaccinnale例行至少有80％的儿童组成的新闻稿说，受影响的国家。

这一战略花费约$ 1.4亿美元，帮助在免疫接种在45个国家21日在1999-2002年期间超过145万儿童受影响最严重。

这些事态发展表明，声明说，国际社会能够实现联合国提出的在2015到2005年底将麻疹死亡人数的目标。

然而，世界卫生组织和联合国儿童基金会的要求不放松了警惕，因为麻疹仍是预防儿童死亡的首要原因。

日电（记者）