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    Cobertura vacunacional contra el sarampión en niños de América Latina: una revision de alcance
    (Universidad de Murcia: servicio de publicaciones, 2025) Bernardo, Francisco Mardones dos Santos; Nascimento, Jamile Domingos do; Silva, Lígia Maria Ferreira da; Barros, Lívia Moreira; Rouberte, Emilia Soares Chaves; Sin departamento asociado
    Objective: To identify advances and setbacks in measles vaccination coverage in children in Latin America. Material andMethod:This is a scoping review carried out in the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, SciELO, BVS and EMBASE databases in February 2025. Full articles, without a time frame, were included in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Results: 11 studies were selected to compose the final sample. The A10 research indicates that the rate found in the vaccination programs of Latin American countries in the period from 2000 to 2015 presented coverage values of 91.1% for measles. Another A11 mentions the coverage rate in 9 countries of the Americas (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela) the coverage of the first dose against measles ranged between 87% and 97% between 2006 and 2016. This research indicates that measles vaccination coverage in Latin American countries has varied in recent decades. Conclusion:The data presented show that there are success stories in the implementation of measures to increase vaccination coverage, but there is also a need to advance in several aspects, including the political, economic, and seek to strengthen public policies that prioritize the prevention of diseases through the supply of immunobiologicals to the population. and the intensification of immunization programmes either at the local or national level