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Mapping for Better Coverage: How GIS Microplanning is Revolutionising Immunisation Campaigns in Kano State

By Misbahu el-Hamza
February 27, 2023
5 Mins read
Technology is enhancing healthcare in Nigeria, as demonstrated by the use of GIS mapping in Kano State to improve vaccinators’ performance and…
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Torchlight Africa

Solar Powered Freezers: A Low Cost but High Impact Strategy Making Critical Vaccines Accessible in Southeast Kenya

By Nigeria Health Watch
November 21, 2022
6 Mins read
By Joyce Chimbi (Lead Writer) Kamboo, Yindalani and Yiuma Mavui are a set of hard-to-reach villages located 17 and 28 kilometres away…
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Torchlight

Making Good on a Promise: How Nasarawa State Vaccinated Seventy Percent of its Eligible Population

By Nigeria Health Watch
June 13, 2022
5 Mins read
By Gabriel Oke (Lead Writer) Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is not a competition and there are no prizes for the state that…
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Thought Leadership

African Vaccination Week 2022: Equitable Vaccine Access can Help Build Resilient Communities

By Nigeria Health Watch
May 11, 2022
5 Mins read
By Folakemi Ajala (Lead Writer) From the old (smallpox) to the new (COVID-19), for centuries, vaccines have helped save and promote healthier…
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Thought Leadership

Overcoming the Challenges of Financing Routine Immunisation Beyond COVID-19

By Chibuike Alagboso
February 23, 2022
4 Mins read
Vaccines remain an invaluable investment and one of the most cost-effective ways in preventing diseases, especially for new-born babies. When children have…
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Thought Leadership

Now We Have More COVID-19 Vaccines in Nigeria: Time to Deliver

By Kenni Ndili
September 1, 2021
3 Mins read
After the successful deployment of the first round of vaccines received from the COVAX facility in March 2021, Nigeria has received its…
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Press Release

CEPI and the African Union join forces to boost African vaccine R&D and manufacturing

By Nigeria Health Watch
April 15, 2021
3 Mins read
Oslo, Norway, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; April 13, 2021—The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the African Union Commission have today…
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Torchlight

Partnership to strengthen immunisation; The Kano State model

By Bashar Abubakar
November 5, 2019
7 Mins read
“It was a hectic day, we had a fixed immunisation session in Gachi village,” says Umar Alhassan, a Routine Immunisation (RI) provider…
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Thought Leadership

Could a new typhoid vaccine end the most misdiagnosed disease in Nigeria?

By Nigeria Health Watch
June 27, 2018
4 Mins read
Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership on Health Series comes from Pharmacist and Public Health Specialist Chijioke Nwosu. He writes about the…
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Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), the six-year Journey from Ibadan to Lokoja

By Nigeria Health Watch
January 20, 2015
5 Mins read
By Chizoba Wonodi Nigeria launched the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into its childhood immunization schedule in Lokoja, on December…
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Thought Leadership

A quiet miracle.....Is this the end of CSM?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
June 28, 2012
2 Mins read
Very rarely have vaccines given us the opportunity to create a small miracle. Unlike the miracle of surgery and antibiotics that brings…
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