LATEST UPDATE: Nigeria Needs N56 Billion for Vaccines
Nigeria needs N56 billion for the purchase of vaccines between now and 2018 if it is to save additional 570,000 children’s lives by 2020.
This disclosure was made yesterday in Abuja during the commemoration of World Pneumonia Day which had its theme as “Universal Access for Pneumonia and Care.”
Speaking at the event, the chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, asserted that given the significant burden of vaccine-preventable deaths, scaling up vaccine coverage must be given the desired attention.
He said that there was the need to make appropriate budgetary provision for vaccines, and pledgedg to work with health authorities to ensure vaccine security, funding and sustenance.
“We will be a key player knowing that we have a key role to play in national budget,” he said, adding that once the country is able to eradicate polio, funds for polio could be used to fund the vaccine programme.”
While giving a caution about the introduction of vaccines, he said: “We must work with the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) to see which vaccines are compactable with our society before it is introduced.”
Earlier, the country programme leader of International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC), Dr Chizoba Wonodi, in her presentation on new vaccine funding landscape and financing options, disclosed that with GAVI was gradually reducing its funding for vaccine purchase due to improvement in Nigeria economic status, adding that the country would need to fund its vaccine programme with over $340million by 2020.
She explained, “With the recent economic strides achieved in Nigeria, the country will graduate from GAVI support beginning from 2016.”
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public, private partnership that supports vaccine programmes in poor countries.
Graduating countries are those who have attained a GNI per capita above the GAVI eligibility threshold of $1,520.
Nigeria is currently at $2710 and, therefore, will begin graduating after the one-year grace period of 2015.
Meanwhile, the executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Mohammed Ado, has revealed that the country intends to freely distribute pneumococcal conjugate vaccine health facilities by December 15, 2014.
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Nigeria needs N56 billion for the purchase of vaccines between now and 2018 if it is to save additional 570,000 children’s lives by 2020.
This disclosure was made yesterday in Abuja during the commemoration of World Pneumonia Day which had its theme as “Universal Access for Pneumonia and Care.”
Speaking at the event, the chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, asserted that given the significant burden of vaccine-preventable deaths, scaling up vaccine coverage must be given the desired attention.
He said that there was the need to make appropriate budgetary provision for vaccines, and pledgedg to work with health authorities to ensure vaccine security, funding and sustenance.
“We will be a key player knowing that we have a key role to play in national budget,” he said, adding that once the country is able to eradicate polio, funds for polio could be used to fund the vaccine programme.”
While giving a caution about the introduction of vaccines, he said: “We must work with the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) to see which vaccines are compactable with our society before it is introduced.”
Earlier, the country programme leader of International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC), Dr Chizoba Wonodi, in her presentation on new vaccine funding landscape and financing options, disclosed that with GAVI was gradually reducing its funding for vaccine purchase due to improvement in Nigeria economic status, adding that the country would need to fund its vaccine programme with over $340million by 2020.
She explained, “With the recent economic strides achieved in Nigeria, the country will graduate from GAVI support beginning from 2016.”
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public, private partnership that supports vaccine programmes in poor countries.
Graduating countries are those who have attained a GNI per capita above the GAVI eligibility threshold of $1,520.
Nigeria is currently at $2710 and, therefore, will begin graduating after the one-year grace period of 2015.
Meanwhile, the executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Mohammed Ado, has revealed that the country intends to freely distribute pneumococcal conjugate vaccine health facilities by December 15, 2014.
(AllAfrica )
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