The Measles Initiative announced recently that measles deaths have dropped from 873,000 in 1999 to 345,000 in 2005, and an excellent editorial in today's Philadelphia Inquirer notes that
The Measles Initiative also has been a model of medical multitasking. During immunization visits, many people also could get bed nets to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes away, vitamin A for strengthening immune systems, de-worming tablets, and tetanus vaccines for pregnant women.