Son La launches measles vaccination campaign

The People's Committee of Son La province on March 24 issued a plan to implement a measles vaccination campaign which aims to vaccinate 95% of children in the target groups who have not yet received or completed the required measles vaccine doses.

The target groups for this campaign include 6,283 children aged 6-9 months; 8,873 children aged 1-5 years; and 9,445 children aged 6-10 years, with over 26,500 measles vaccine doses planned for distribution across 12 localities in the province.

The provincial People's Committee has requested that, once the vaccines are distributed, the official vaccination process be completed by March 31, 2025. Additional and catch-up vaccinations for those who missed or postponed their vaccination should be done by April 10, 2025.

A health worker at the Chieng Khoong commune Health Station in Song Ma district is administering vaccine to a child.

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