COVID‐19 vaccine wastage in Africa: A case of Nigeria-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

COVID‐19 vaccine wastage in Africa: A case of Nigeria

Published:2023-12-26 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0749-6753
Container-title:The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
language:en
Short-container-title:Health Planning & Management

Author:

Musa Muhammad Kabir¹²^ORCID,Abdulsalam Abdullateef¹²³^ORCID,Haruna Usman Abubakar¹²³,Zakariya Farida²³^ORCID,Salisu Sanusi Muhammad²⁴,Onajin‐Obembe Bisola⁵⁶,Idris Suleman Hadejia⁷,Eliseo Lucero‐Prisno Don⁸⁹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medicine Nazarbayev University School of Medicine (NUSOM) Astana Kazakhstan

2. Global Health Focus, Africa Abuja Nigeria

3. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Nigeria

4. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Zaria Kaduna State Nigeria

5. Department of Anaesthesiology College of Health Sciences University of PortHarcourt Port Harcourt Rivers State Nigeria

6. University of PortHarcourt Teaching Hospital Port Harcourt Rivers State Nigeria

7. Department of Community Medicine College of Medical Sciences Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Zaria Kaduna State Nigeria

8. Department of Global Health and Development London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK

9. Faculty of Management and Development Studies University of the Philippines Open University Los Baños Laguna Philippines

Abstract

AbstractThe World Health Organization has launched campaigns to boost immunisation rates to 70 percent globally by the middle of 2022. However, despite the global success of about 64% COVID‐19 vaccination coverage, there is a big gap in Nigeria. To date, only 13.8% of the population has received the recommended dose. This demonstrates a significant disparity between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Amidst the wide gap in vaccination, COVID‐19 vaccine wastage still occurs in Nigeria. At the end of 2021, it was estimated that over a million doses of the COVID‐19 vaccine had been wasted. It is anticipated that there will be more COVID‐19 vaccine wastage in Nigeria, because of the combined factors that threaten vaccination uptake including vaccine accessibility, lack of appropriate storage facilities, poor electricity supply, insecurity challenges, and inadequate health promotion. This results in concomitant financial and opportunity losses. In this paper, we discuss COVID‐19 vaccine wastage in Nigeria including causes, and solutions that can be applied to mitigate this wastage.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Health Policy

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hpm.3749

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