The vaccine, produced by the Serum Institute of India, under licence from Novavax, is now part of the COVAX facility portfolio.
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This was disclosed by Malam Usman Binyaminu, the state Technical Facilitator, at the inauguration of the immunisation exercise on Saturday in Malammadori.
Hawkins disclosed this in his remarks at the third quarter Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Care’s review meeting on Monday in Abuja.
The Bauchi State government on July 24 distributed over 1.5 million doses of cholera vaccines to Primary Healthcare Facilities (PHCs), to facilitate smooth conduct of the vaccination exercise across the state.
But a report from the Associated Press said that in this case, children as young as 12 were administering the vaccine to others.
“Tulutulua is the most difficult, hard to reach, desert area in the state, I personally visited the community to mobilize parents to ensure their children are immunized
The Director of Public Health in the state, Dr. Okechukwu Ossai, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Enugu that the exercise was to tackle issues of maternal and child health to scale down maternal and infant mortality in the state
Mele said its Integrated Primary Health Care Team was working in about 311 electoral wards to ensure availability of the relevant services to meet the demand of such persons
The 11 polio vulnerable states, the NPHCDA said, are Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto Yobe and Zamfara
Kaberuka said the amount would help co-finance the purchase of vaccines by GAVI Allaince and the bank between 2016 and 2020
They are all avoidable and can be prevented through immunization and provision of nutritional supplements like Vitamin A. Other vaccine-preventable diseases include polio, whooping cough, hepatitis, diphtheria and neonatal tetanus
Jibril said 242 out of the cases had been resolved by the officials conducting the exercise
He said that the time has come to end the small-minded conspiracy theories of the past and place our children before the politics of the moment
They were alleged to have incited the violence following their airing of a programme, Sandar Girma, which content was anti-immunisation