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By Nigeria Health Watch | August 8, 2024

Nigeria’s Vaccine Financing: Self-Sufficiency is No Longer a Choice, But a Necessity

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) In 2021, the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) Framework for Action, calling for 60% of vaccines required by Africans to be made in Africa by 2040 — which is up to 1.7 billion doses annually. Currently, Africa produces only 0.1% of the […]

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Vaccines are a Modern Day Miracle: Gavi’s Role in Sustaining Life-Saving Access

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 26, 2024

Vivianne Ihekweazu and Alexander Chiejina (Lead Writers) “Thanks to the power of immunisation, the number of childhood deaths from vaccine preventable diseases has fallen by 70% since 2000” — Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance at the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation The exponential benefits of vaccines cannot be underestimated. As Chris […]

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Gavi and UNICEF welcome approval of new oral cholera vaccine

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 18, 2024

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF welcome the news that a new oral cholera vaccine (OCV), Euvichol-S, has now received WHO prequalification and can be made available to countries around the world. The prequalification of this new product will help EuBiologics, the manufacturer, produce more volumes of vaccine, faster, and at a lower cost – […]

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Participants in Nigeria vaccinated in first-ever Phase 2 Lassa fever vaccine clinical trial, sponsored by IAVI

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 4, 2024

The CEPI-funded study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of IAVI’s single dose Lassa fever vaccine candidate Key takeaways • Participants in Nigeria have been vaccinated with a Lassa fever vaccine candidate in the first Phase 2 clinical trial of any Lassa vaccine.• Lassa fever is a deadly hemorrhagic fever common to West Africa. […]

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When Gavi came to visit Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 25, 2019

A welcome visit from Gavi As 2019 wound down to its close and holiday plans were being made, arrangements were also being made for a high-level visit of Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and his team to Nigeria. This was a much-welcomed visit- as it comes after a dark period that saw […]

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