Table 3. Estimated number of under-5 lives saved in 12 states participating in India’s 2010–2013 measles supplementary immunization activity.
| State | No. (%) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Under-5 lives saved by measles vaccine | Under-5 population in SIA statesa | |
| Assam | 378 (2.0) | 3 556 222 (4.8) |
| Bihar | 3 436 (18.1) | 13 811 150 (19.2) |
| Chhattisgarh | 79 (0.4) | 3 014 655 (3.8) |
| Gujarat | 262 (1.4) | 6 293 984 (8.2) |
| Haryana | 435 (2.3) | 2 763 215 (3.6) |
| Jharkhand | 353 (1.9) | 4 022 926 (5.5) |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 864 (9.8) | 8 899 016 (11.2) |
| Manipur | 32 (0.2) | 257 601 (0.4) |
| Meghalaya | 33 (0.2) | 416 638 (0.6) |
| Rajasthan | 996 (5.2) | 8 852 191 (11.0) |
| Tripura | 27 (0.1) | 339 014 (0.5) |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11 121 (58.5) | 24 945 895 (30.7) |
| All statesb | 19 016 (100.0) | 77 172 507 (100.0)c |
SIA: supplementary immunization activity.
a Author’s calculations based on Government of India census statistics.8
b Including all participating states in the 2010–2013 measles SIA.
c SIA states contained 59% of the under-5 population of India.8
Note: Analyses use proportional mortality from the Million Deaths Study22 and vitamin A effectiveness from the Deworming and Enhanced Vitamin A Trial.21 Lives saved were calculated for the period 2010–2013.