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The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has identified Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara as the states with the highest burden of un-immunised children in Nigeria.

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The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) is working urgently to stop the transmission of variant Polio virus type II (cVPVII) by December, Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of the agency has said. | Pulse Nigeria

Nigeria has 100 LGs categorised as Zero Dose areas because of the high number of children who have never received vaccination, UNICEF says

The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has blamed myths, disinformation, misinformation, and rumours, as major contributing factors to poor

Members of the community told journalists Saturday that UNICEF’s intervention had increased access to vaccines and other health care services for children and pregnant women.

6.2million Nigerian children missed all routine immunization (zero dose) between 2019- 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic About 33 million children will need to be vaccinated in Africa between 2023 and 2025 to put the continent back on track to achieve the 2030 global immunization goals that include reducing morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. […]

The World Health Organization(WHO), has shown that in the Africa Region, the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine immunization

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has said that over 600,000 children were not immunized against childhood killer diseases in three northern

Advertisement BY SULE TAHIR Over 600,000 Children’s of three state’s namely Kano, Katsina and Jigawa state’s were not immunized against childhood killer diseases, The Kano field offices…