Authors: Aremo Ifeyinwa Nancy, Ijarotimi Ibi Dolapo, Olaniyan Temitope.
Introduction: Measles is one of the diseases marked for elimination and high vaccination coverage rates with measles vaccine have resulted in significant decline in it's incidence in many countries. This study describes measles surveillance data for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for years 2012-2015.
Method: This was a secondary analysis of the FCT IDSR measles surveillance data from 2012- 2015. The IDSR paper forms were filled monthly by DSNOs and entered into Ms Excel. We imported the data into Epiinfo 7 which we used to analyse it. We calculated proportions and tested associations using chi-square at p=0.05.
Results: Five hundred and sixty-six suspected measles cases were reported during the period. The age range was 3-576 months. There were 203 (35.5%) males, 147 (26.0%) females and the rest unknown. Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) had 166_(29.3%), the highest number of cases while Kwali Local Government Area had 35_(6.2%), the least. The highest number of cases _266 (47%) was in 2013 and least _85 (15%) in 2014. Of all cases, 133 (23.5%) were confirmed IgM positive for measles, 132 (23.3%) were negative while 288 (50.4%) had no confirmatory results. IgM test for Rubella was positive in 19 (3.4%) and negative in 67 (11.8%). Of the_133 confirmed measles cases 90 (24.9%) had no measles immuniztion, 40 (24.5%) had one dose immunization and three (7.9%) had 2 doses. Children <59 months have higher uptake of measles immunization than more than 59 months, with higher uptake in males than females.
Conclusion: Measles immunisation was protective against measles and more efforts should be made to ensure that all children get at least a dose of the vaccine.
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