Tag: Vaccines

Nigeria’s healthcare system has been shaped by decades of dependency on imported pharmaceuticals, vaccines and even basic diagnostic tools.

The Africa CDC said the vaccination deployment guide was created in anticipation of the vaccine delivery to the region.

Mr Pate said while strides have been made in healthcare affordability and insurance coverage, achieving universal access to quality healthcare ...

According to the study, three diseases- HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis - claim nearly 2.5 million lives annually, reinforcing the need ...

While some children are partially vaccinated, NPHCDA said others are not, hence compromising the country's goal of achieving population immunity.

The NPHCDA boss said significant progress has been made in vaccination but that some states are performing better than others.

The president called for the speedy take-off of local production of mRNA vaccines following Nigeria’s selection alongside five other African ...

Mr Shuaib said the partnership with pharmacies will improve vaccination rates within the shortest time possible.

COVID Vaccine The institutions, which are NlMR, National Vetinary Research Institute (NVRI) Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, University of Jos and ...

The new donation by the Italian government is the second donation from foreign nations to Nigeria in the last five ...

“The delivery is part of a pledge by the European Union to distribute vaccines to some developing countries,” EU representative ...

Also speaking on vaccination, the Director-General said, “vaccine inequity is a killer of people and jobs, and it undermines a ...

Nigeria, with its estimated population of over 200 million, relies on imported vaccines to prevent and treat diseases.’

“What we know is that current public health safety measures and vaccination confer protection. It might not be 100 per ...

The Mastercard Foundation has promised to fund the purchase of 57 million doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccines, and approximately ...

Nigeria has administered at least 9,640,048 doses of COVID vaccines so far.

The WHO official further disclosed that since March 2020, there have been more than 150,400 COVID-19 infections in health workers ...

Mr Shuaib said the government has adequate doses of vaccines in store to cover a large percentage of the population.

“Pfizer’s drug, part of a class known as protease inhibitors, is designed to block an enzyme the coronavirus needs to ...

Investment in COVID-19 vaccines have created new billionaires, available data has revealed.

“The panel is expected to make recommendations for whether more Americans should receive booster shots against the coronavirus or not”

Before the commencement of COVID-19 vaccination, the government had set an ambitious goal of vaccinating 40 per cent of its ...

The new date is to enable NAFDAC to complete its assessment and preparatory processes, NPHCDA director said.

Nigeria had commenced COVID-19 vaccination on March 5, 2021, having received approximately four million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from ...