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WHO’s mission to “promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable, aiming for everyone to achieve the highest possible level of health” was at the heart of all our strategic interventions in 2024 while aligning to national strategic priorities, towards ensuring that every Nigerian, irrespective of age, gender or economic status, has the right to health as enshrined in the 1999 amended Constitution of Nigeria.

In 2024 in spite of the global economic downturn, WHO Nigeria through the whole-of-government and system approach made significant inroads in narrowing immunization disparities by reducing morbidity in high-burden regions leveraging on the Zero-Dose Intensification Strategy and Big Catch-up Campaign, innovatively tackled the resurgence of the circulating variant of Polio across the communities, implemented targeted and integrated people-centered preventive, promotive and curative measures that reduced the burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases as well as boost immunization numbers to improve population immunity. In addition, WHO Nigeria  strengthened  strategic  partnership  across  all  levels  of government to ensure a resilient and responsive system to deliver quality essential health services for Reproductive, Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health along the life course country capacity was also strengthened to response to public health emergencies and address AMR with standard tools and political commitment.

Our work was made easier by tremendous support from the WHO workforce, volunteers, government and development partners, donors and the communities that we serve. We look forward to some even deeper community engagement, accelerated innovation and greater efficiencies in programme delivery in 2025 despite the daunting challenges caused by the fast changing geopolitical and development landscape.