A study released today by the International Vaccine Access
Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions
for Nigeria's immunization program that could offer the best
hope yet for scaling up vaccine access to the nation's most
rural areas and taking aim at the country's precipitous number
of child deaths. While the nation has made progress on child
survival in recent years, Nigeria is still responsible for one
out of every eight child deaths worldwide. The country is second
only to India in number of annual child deaths, many of which
result from diseases that can be prevented with vaccines. Recent
projections from Decade of Vaccines Economics (DoVE) show that
by achieving 90% coverage with vaccines for the five leading
childhood diseases including Hib, pneumococcal disease,
rotavirus, measles and pertussis Nigeria could save more than
600,000 lives over the next ten years and add $17 billion to its
economy. The study Landscape Ana