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Turning Big Catch-Up Gains into PHC Practice: The Accountability Test for Nigeria’s Immunisation Plans

Chidinma Peace Ahunam and Chisom Obi-Jeff (Guest writers) In Nigeria, many children miss routine immunisation not because they are “hard to find”, but because services do not consistently reach them. In 2023, about 2.1 million children missed key routine doses, and in 2024, only 39% of children aged 12–23 months were recorded as fully immunised. […]

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AfriVacx: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria

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Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) When Okorie Nneoma, a mother of three, first heard about a vaccination outreach near her community in Nsukka, Enugu, she initially hesitated. She, like many mothers in her village, had reservations about vaccinations and their relevance, fueled by years of misinformation, and cultural and religious beliefs. “I was scared about vaccines […]

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Catching Up on Zero-Dose and Under-Vaccinated Children in Africa: Insights From UNICEF

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Zubaida Baba Ibrahim [Lead Writer] Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, immunisation efforts in Africa have experienced a significant setback, leading to a concerning increase in the number of unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children on the continent. Nigeria and Ethiopia have the highest numbers of unvaccinated children in Africa, with a combined total […]

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Closing the Gap: Partnering for ‘the Big Catch-Up’ on Routine Immunisation in Nigeria

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By Misbahu El-Hamza and Bunmi Oyebanji Obot (Lead Writers) Routine immunisation (RI) plays a critical role in reducing morbidity and mortality among children under five, as vaccine-preventable diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, and pneumonia are among the leading causes of mortality of under-five children in developing countries like Nigeria. With pneumonia alone claiming the lives […]

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‘E nor dey, come tomorrow’ – How vaccine stock-outs affect routine immunisation rates

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Vaccines administered on the Nigerian National Immunisation schedule are free, right? Ewomazino disagrees. She had given birth to lovely twin boys and the expenses started to pile up almost immediately, often threatening to overshadow the joys that usually accompany the birth of a child. At birth, immunisation for her boys cost her 50,000 naira per […]

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Getting to 100 percent: Enugu’s fight to maintain its polio free status

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Veronica Asogwa is a petty trader in Abakpa Nike, one of the largest suburbs in Enugu State, southeast Nigeria. When the state announced the commencement of the sub-national polio vaccination campaign on January 17, 2020, Asogwa, 37, prepared to take her two-year-old son, Emeka, to a vaccination centre a few kilometres from where she lives […]

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