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Measles threatens lives of thousands of children

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Pakistan
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HIGHLIGHTS

• Humanitarian partners urgently need more resources to sustain assistance for more than 1 million people currently displaced in north-west Pakistan due to conflict and insecurity since 2008.

• Low measles vaccination coverage continues to threaten the lives of thousands of children in Pakistan. From January to mid-May this year, 10,875 measles cases were reported, equivalent to 73 per cent of cases reported the whole of last year.

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