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Nevertheless, all countries should uniformly provide a second booster vaccination and a complete coverage of the childhood population if equivalently effective results are to lead to eradication. The strongest problem is dire poverty in subSahara Africa, in India and in other countries. Can such countries conduct vaccination campaigns SUCCESSFULLY without a great deal of help? A gift of the vaccine is necessary if world eradication is to succeed. Africa, India and Southeast Asia are strongholds of measles. These strongholds MUST be removed if success is to follow as healthy populations, recalling that many other diseases have the same poverty distributions. Still, the eradication of measles can be argued as premature since even Europe had incidences like 3.37/100,000 population in 2002 with England and Ireland at epidemic levels, yet they are able to eradicate the 3 MMR diseases, just as Peru is. Whatever the great problems might be, eventually many of them might be seen as Afroasian poverty.