COVID-19 vaccine wastage in Africa: A case of Nigeria
Musa M.K. Abdulsalam A. Haruna U.A. Zakariya F. Salisu S.M. Onajin-Obembe B. Idris S.H. Eliseo Lucero-Prisno D., III
March 2024John Wiley and Sons Ltd
International Journal of Health Planning and Management
2024#39Issue 2229 - 236 pp.
The 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.
COVID-19 , health systems , Nigeria , pandemic , vaccine wastage
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Department of Medicine, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine (NUSOM), Astana, Kazakhstan
Global Health Focus, Africa, Abuja, Nigeria
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, Zaria, Nigeria
Department of Anaesthesiology, College of Health Sciences, University of PortHarcourt, Rivers State, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
University of PortHarcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, Zaria, Nigeria
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Faculty of Management and Development Studies, University of the Philippines Open University, Laguna, Los Baños, Philippines
Department of Medicine
Global Health Focus
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Department of Anaesthesiology
University of PortHarcourt Teaching Hospital
Department of Community Medicine
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Management and Development Studies
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