Framework for verification of measles and rubella elimination in the WHO South-East Asia Region

Abstract

The Seventy-Second Session of the Regional Committee for the WHOSouth-East Asia Region resolved, in September 2019, to revise the goalfor “measles elimination and rubella/CRS control by 2020”, set by theSixty-Sixth Session in 2013. It adopted the new goal of “measles andrubella elimination by 2023”. In 2020, the SEA-RVC updated the currentlyavailable guideline to include criteria and lines of evidence for theverification of rubella elimination.This framework provides the core principles for the verification ofmeasles and rubella elimination. It describes two essential criteria and fivelines of evidence that form the basis of the verification of measles andrubella elimination. It is intended to serve as a guiding document for theverification of the progress made towards measles and rubellaelimination in the Region, in line with the global guidelines.