1 December 2025
Proactive steps must be taken to prevent vaccine-preventable communicable diseases like measles from increasing the national health care burden.
Tag: Measles
3 September 2025
The success of Malaysia’s vaccination programme was built not in silos, but on powerful public-private partnerships. To now exclude GPs from the MR campaign is to forget that hard-earned lesson.
4 August 2025
MOH launches a nationwide MRSIA campaign for children aged 6-59 months to get a third measles-containing vaccine dose, as only 62% of districts achieved 95% MMR vaccine coverage in 2024. Under the NIP, the MMR vaccine is given at 9 and 12 months of age.
23 February 2024
Measles is eliminated in some parts of the world, but it’s starting to make a comeback.
15 December 2023
Malaysia
Lesson From Thailand’s Dengue ‘Virtual Human’, Malaysia Plans 2024 Measles Supplemental Immunisation
Thailand uses a popular virtual human named Ingma, a schoolgirl composite of 1.2 mil dengue fever patients, to raise awareness. Malaysia builds vaccine equity and access through NIP; MOH also plans measles supplementary immunisation activities for 2024.
22 August 2023
Cases of vaccine-preventable childhood diseases in Malaysia spiked post-pandemic in 2022: pertussis (818%), diphtheria (80%), measles (63%). Paediatricians say even a small drop in vaccination rates disrupted herd immunity; cases may rise more this year.
10 March 2023
Similar and clear communication should be applied to all vaccines.
20 January 2023
Two doses at 9 months, 12 months, or at 12 months, 4 ½ years, or three doses 9 months, 12 months, 7 years?
16 July 2020
Malaysia's MMR and chickenpox vaccine uptakes drastically declined in March and April, showing no signs of recovery in May.
5 June 2020
HFMD cases decreased by 45%, while chickenpox declined by 44%.