Why the measles outbreak?

Back in 1998, the Philippines gave a commitment to the World Health Organization (WHO) to undertake a 10-year mass measles vaccination program aimed at achieving zero measles record by 2008.

This should not have been such a difficult target to meet considering the ready availability of the anti-measles vaccine in all of the country’s health centers. That vaccine is available for free, which means that poverty should never be used as an excuse for failing to have all children aged 10 and below receive the protection they deserve.