Abstract

In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, many efforts were made to prevent the spread of measles, until finally measles eradication was achieved, for which since the 1970s, there was a great effort to control the spread of measles [1], because it had one of the highest rates of measles mortality among children under 5 in Latin America. This effort has included training and monitoring in combination with national immunization programs and other organizations such as the World Health Organization and The Pan American Health Organization. Since 1979, in Bolivia, to control the disease, has used the vaccination strategy against measles in the framework of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) for all children from 12 to 23 months years old, who were given an attenuated dose in vivo as part of immunization in childhood [2].