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Report Identifies Challenges, Solutions To Increasing Routine Vaccination In Nigeria
In this post in PSI's "Healthy Lives" blog, Deputy Editor Tom Murphy examines routine vaccination solutions in Nigeria, where "[t]he Decade of Vaccines Economics projects 90 percent vaccine coverage against Hib, pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, measles and pertussis can save 600,000 lives and $17 billion in Nigeria over the next 10 years." Murphy highlights a "new report [.pdf] by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at Johns Hopkins University [that] identifies the challenges and solutions to increasing routine vaccinations in" the country, noting it also "identifies supply, human resource and demand solutions to increasing vaccination access" (5/8).
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