“Nigeria: Board Seeks Approval for New Immunization Policy”

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The Nigerian National Immunization Programme’s board has outlined its strategy for eradicating polio and also fighting other diseases. The board has detailed three main steps to help the country combat diseases in children: developing improved and sustainable immunization coverage for 80 percent by 2005, halting transmission of polio by 2003 and eliminating it by 2005, and eradicating maternal and neonatal tetanus by 2005. The policy also looks at how to ensure injection safety, develop immunization schedules, create new vaccines, and deal with the preservation of vaccines and logistical variables during immunization campaigns. According to the chairman of the board of the NIP, Prof. Idris Mohammed, the federal government has released initial funds that will be used to buy antigens such as measles, tetanus, yellow fever, BCG, diphtheria, the oral polio vaccine, and the vaccine for hepatitis B.

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