Tag: Vaccines

The America First Global Health Strategy is being questioned as exploitative.

The twins reportedly died a day after they were vaccinated at a primary healthcare centre in Lagos State.

He added that health spending now accounts for 5.2 per cent of the national budget, up from just over three ...

He said health will remain at the heart of legislative priorities while experts, stakeholders push for sustainable financing, climate-resilient healthcare

UNICEF and partners will also screen these children for malnutrition and ensure those identified with malnutrition receive treatment.

Mr Aina said the campaign is expected to reach millions of children and adolescents across the country with life-saving vaccines

He described the disease as contagious, hence the need to contain its spread through vaccination in the state.

He noted that several LGAs in the state had recorded a significant number of monkeypox cases

The grant supports the implementation of Nigeria’s National Plan for Vaccine Research, Development and Local Production 2024–2034

The commitment, now dubbed the “Lagos Declaration”, aims to address the country’s immunisation gaps

The announcement comes amid deep cuts to global aid budgets, which threaten to reverse decades of progress in child survival

The proposed agency is expected to centralise and coordinate malaria responses in the country.

He advised the State government to resuscitate its once vibrant cassava production industry in order for it to be utilised ...

She said for the first phase, the vaccines will be administered to children ages nine to 15 years, and the ...

"We will not relent until Kano is completely free from the virus,” he said.

Mrs Aribeana noted that local manufacturing of pharmaceuticals also presents opportunities for job creation, international trade, economic growth and national ...

He noted that the HPV vaccine is available free of charge in PHC facilities across the country, like every other ...

She called on all stakeholders to ensure massive awareness campaign before the commencement of the exercise to ensure high level ...

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 ...