在委内瑞拉加拉加斯（Caracas），一个儿童在接受泛美卫生组织挨家挨户提供的麻疹疫苗注射。(PAHO/WHO/Sabina Rodriguez)
泛美卫生组织（Pan American Health Organization）新公布的报告说，向委内瑞拉提供疫苗和药品的国际援助使委内瑞拉的麻疹疫情得到控制。
报告说，2019年委内瑞拉麻疹病例与一年前同比下降91%，从将近5800例减少到548例。
一度在委内瑞拉被根除的麻疹2017年重新爆发。当年确诊病例为727例，造成两人死亡。次年，出现5779个新病例，导致75人死亡。据泛美卫生组织说，其中一半以上的患者为5岁以下儿童。
从2018年开始，在委内瑞拉加拉加斯开始进行挨家挨户的麻疹防疫注射。(PAHO/WHO/Sabina Rodriguez)
美国国际发展署（U.S. Agency for International Development）向泛美卫生组织提供了将近340万美元援助，包括从2018年以来提供资金，为6岁到15岁的900万委内瑞拉儿童注射疫苗。美国国际发展署署长马克·格林（Mark Green）在一份声明中说，仅此一项便“挽救了遭受该国政权所制造的政治和经济危机持续影响的人的生命”。
泛美卫生组织说，持续减少麻疹感染的关键是将委内瑞拉的疫苗注射率保持在95%以上。只要非法的马杜罗（Maduro）独裁统治仍然掌权和继续在全国对治疗实施限制，国际援助就将不断提供救生预防措施。
格林说，“美国政府和人民继续承诺帮助委内瑞拉人民，并在这场人为的危机中继续向他们提供支持”。他说，“我们请其他国家也这样做”。
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Measles in Venezuela under control, thanks to international aid
International aid efforts to bring vaccines and medicine to Venezuela have brought the country’s measles outbreak under control, a new report says.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported that the number of measles cases in 2019 was down 91 percent from the previous year, reduced to 548 cases from nearly 5,800.
Once eradicated in Venezuela, measles came back with force in 2017. That year, there were 727 confirmed cases and two deaths from measles. The following year, there were 5,779 new cases and 75 deaths. More than half of these cases were reported in children under the age of 5, according to PAHO, a specialized international health agency.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contributed nearly $3.4 million to PAHO, including funds to vaccinate 9 million Venezuelan children between the ages of 6 and 15 against the deadly disease since 2018. This alone “saved the lives of people affected by the ongoing, regime-driven political and economic crisis in the country,” USAID Administrator Mark Green said in a statement.
The PAHO says that the key to continuing the reduction in measles is to keep the vaccination rate above 95 percent in Venezuela. International aid efforts will continue to provide lifesaving preventive measures as long as the illegitimate Maduro dictatorship remains in power and continues to limit medical treatments across the nation.
“The Government and people of the United States remain committed to the people of Venezuela, and will continue to support them during this man-made crisis,” Green said. “We ask other nations to do the same.”
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