UNION HEALTH MINISTER SHRI J P NADDA LAUNCHES NATIONAL ZERO MEASLES-RUBELLA ELIMINATION CAMPAIGN ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK

Measles-Rubella elimination campaign 2025-26 marks an opportunity to achieve 100% immunization coverage to provide high quality life to children by administering them with two doses of Measles and Rubella vaccine: Shri J P Nadda

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Union Minister of Health and Family Wel-fare, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda thursday virtu-ally launched the Na-tional Zero Measles-Ru-bella Elimination cam-paign 2025-26 onthe first day of the World Immu-nization Week (24-30 April), marking a sig-nificant step towards India's goal of eliminating Measles and Rubella by 2026.

On the occasion, Union Health Minister released multi-language M-RIEC materials (post-ers, radio jingles, MR elimination and official U-WIN launch film) for creating awareness inthe communities. These IEC materials were also shared with all States/UTs for adaptation and rollout during the MR Elimina-tion Campaign 2025-26.

Addressing the occa-sion, ShriJ P Nadda stat-edthat, “today is momen-tous occasion as the launch of Measles-Rubel-la elimination campaign 2025-26 marks an op-portunity to achieve 100% immunization coverage to provide high quality lifestyle to children by administering them with the two doses of Measles and Rubella vaccine.” Not-ing that this disease is of ahighlycontagious nature that hampers not only children’s life but also cause misery to their parents, Shri Nadda un-derlined the importance ofensuring that not even asingle childisleftbehind.

The Union Health Minister congratulated the Ministry for getting recognition with the prestigious Measles and Rubella Champion Award by the Measles and Ru-bella Partnership in 2024. He highlighted that “332 districts in the country have reported zero mea-sles cases and 487 districts have reported zero ru-bella cases during Janu-aryMarch 2025 which underscores the progress achieved in the goal of M-R elimination.”