The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Ado Muhammed, said Nigeria requires about $284 million to achieve the set target in immunization. He made this known ahead of a conference of Anglophone Africa Peer Review Workshop on sustainable immunization financing in Abuja.
He mentioned that vaccines and immunization financing were very critical to Nigeria’s anticipated eradication of polio virus in the country next year.
Speaking at the conference, he said “Nigeria has been removed as a polio endemic country by WHO, but Nigeria is not yet a polio-free country. I think we need to understand the difference between the two”.
Furthermore, he added that this step, will take Nigeria close to being a complete polio-free country in two years.
