Brazil’s Ministry of Health has authorized the transfer of R$524,000 for measles response efforts in Atalaia do Norte, Benjamin Constant and Tabatinga, municipalities in the state of Amazonas. The ordinance was published on November 9. The funds will be used to strengthen vaccination, surveillance and efforts to stop transmission of the disease.
The money will be transferred in a single payment from the National Health Fund to municipal health funds. Recipients will be required to document their use of the funds in the Annual Management Report. On November 7, a vaccination campaign on the border between Brazil, Peru and Colombia included the three municipalities and São Paulo de Olivença, also in Amazonas. The plan is to step up vaccination at ports and in riverside communities and Indigenous areas.
In 2026, Brazil confirmed 65 imported cases of measles, of which 21 were recorded in Amazonas. The country has remained free of endemic circulation of the disease since 2024.
