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By Chioma Obinna For decades now, vaccination programmes in Nigeria have been making progress. But the advent of COVID-19 vaccines may be bringing back ugly years of vaccine hesitancy which experts fear may erode gains already made in routine immunisation. According to experts, vaccine hesitancy is a continuum between vaccine acceptance and refusal. Eligible Nigerians are either delaying or refusing COVID-19 vaccines, even after the World Health Organisation, WHO, has confirmed the safety and effectiveness against the dreaded virus. Sunday Vanguard reports that if left unaddressed, vaccine he...

Vaccine apathy threatens COVID-19 response On Kindly Share This Story: By Chioma Obinna For decades now, vaccination programmes in Nigeria have been making progress. But the advent of COVID-19 vaccines may be bringing back ugly years of vaccine hesitancy which experts fear may erode gains already made in routine immunisation. According to experts, vaccine hesitancy is a continuum between vaccine acceptance and refusal. Eligible Nigerians are either delaying or refusing COVID-19 vaccines, even after the World Health Organisation, WHO, has confirmed the safety and effectiveness against the dr...

The possibility of wild polio virus resurfacing exists, if necessary actions to curtail it are not followed across the country, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has said. UNICEF Communication for Development Specialist, Elizabeth Onitolo in her presentation, “Polio Key Messages Post Certification”, said, there was  possibility for polio disease to resurface in Nigeria after […]

Updated: February 23, 2021 21:35 IST It will cover children and pregnant women who missed the routine immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Share Article AAA A health worker (R) administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a national Pulse Polio Immunisation (PPI) programme at a Urban Primary Health Centre in Hyderabad on January 31, 2021.   | Photo Credit: AFP It will cover children and pregnant women who missed the routine immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic. States/Union Territories (UTs) have rolled out Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 to cover children and pr...