Nigéria

Immunization and Vaccine Development

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Nigeria’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was first initiated in 1979 and the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Health continues to place high priority on immunization. In 1999, a new drive to sustainably re-vitalize the immunization system commenced in synergy with the accelerated strategy on polio eradication. Consequently, the Federal Government established the National Programme on Immunization (NPI) whose key focus was to provide support to the implementation of state and LGA immunization programmes.

WHO provided technical support to national authorities at federal, state, local government and ward level to strengthen the implementation of the Reaching Every Ward (REW) strategy and the Government of Nigeria signed a memorandum of understanding with WHO to conduct training on the strategy for health workers at national, state, local government and ward levels.

The support provided by WHO, along with other partners, to the efforts of national authorities in routine immunization contributed to improved access to and coverage of routine immunization services.

The number of fixed immunization service delivery points and outreach immunization sites continues to increase steadily.

Supported by immunization partners Nigeria has made great strides in the last two years, in particular in its polio eradication efforts. This gives hope that the year 2010 could see the interruption of transmission.