Why are they projecting an increase in debt based on those new vaccines? Children do not need the HPV and pneumococcal vaccines. There is no truth in these.

fellis:
How bad can things possibly get under this old man's regime?

I'm no Buhari fan but please don't play politics with this: under GEJ's time, Measles vaccine ran out.

The more you play sides, remember that at the end of the day, all politicians, APC and PDP, will fly their kids out and even their grandkids out to get this vaccines. And they will drive past your unvaccinated babies to do so, completely at peace. Because they know they have blinded you too well to fight them.

sonnie10:
Why are they projecting an increase in debt based on those new vaccines? Children do not need the HPV and pneumococcal vaccines. There is no truth in these.

Babies need pneumococcal (it is when some neighbour's child ends up in hospital due to lack of it that other parents rush and get it). HPV is recommended at 13 years. The U.S. that pipes potable water even to flush toilets is giving Rotavirus (to prevent stomach bugs and diahrrea) for free, Nigerian government and its unregulated water supply is refusing to give this to the masses. Go to the Newborn thread and see mohers daily asking for doage instructioms for ORS and how to stop diahrea. So yeah, there's some truth.

Onegai:


I'm no Buhari fan but please don't play politics with this: under GEJ's time, Measles vaccine ran out.

The more you play sides, remember that at the end of the day, all politicians, APC and PDP, will fly their kids out and even their grandkids out to get this vaccines. And they will drive past your unvaccinated babies to do so, completely at peace. Because they know they have blinded you too well to fight them.

OK ma.

worksmart:
Good.
It is better to concentrate on preventative measures

what other type of preventive measure Or what do you think it's the use of vaccine Treatment

bigtt76:
Yes o. That visit is needed to see how we can exchange oir heat for small cold especially now wen fuel nor de so

bigtt76:
Yes o. That visit is needed to see how we can exchange oir heat for small cold especially now wen fuel nor de so

Popcorns are normally fried in the same pot, in the same oil, at the same time and under the same heat conditions. But they do not all pop at the same time. When flood comes, fish eat ants. When flood recedes, ants eat fish. Only time matters. To make soap, oil is required. But to clean oil, soap is required. This is the irony of life. Everybody needs somebody at any one point in time. Do not despise or treat anyone with scorn when they are excelling or failing more than you. There is time for EVERYTHING and for EVERYONE. Keep TRUSTING in God and WAITING for your turn. Your time to POP will come at God's appointed time. NEVER GIVE UP .

So sad. I weep for this country. So little regard for health.

This is sad.

victorazy:
GEJ plz forgive us

too late to mend

Emekamex:
Millions of children may lose access to life-saving vaccines if Nigeria doesn’t come up with a way to pay a vaccine debt that could rise to N40 billion by 2020, public health experts have said.

Dr Ben Anyene, chairman of the National Immunisation Financing Task Team (NIFT) says,“Without adequate funding for vaccines, the routine immunisation system will experience setbacks such as stockouts of vaccines that will ultimately lead to increased illness and/or deaths from vaccine preventable diseases.”

Speaking in Abuja ahead of a peer-review workshop next week for officials from five Anglophone countries, he said up to 7.5 million children in need of routine vaccination every year could be affected by the shortage of sustainable financing for immunisation—and others across Anglophone West Africa.

According to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, full immunisation using available vaccines costs around N4,000 per child.
Introduction of new vaccines, including rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, human papilloma vaccine and meningitis A, will push the cost to N14,000 per child, an increase from current $274 million to $435 million a year.

Nigeria pays only 25% of the cost, the rest of it sourced from international partners and donors.
The agency has also projected Nigeria will need $210 billion to fund polio campaign until the country is declared polio-free after going three years without the virus by July 24 next year.

NPHCDA executive director Dr Muhammad Ado says Nigeria has secured funding for polio campaign this year but needs $284 million for 2017. Of that figure, some $8m is to come from government funding.
“Domestic funding for immunisation has to increase,” said Ado. “Domestic funding from Anglophone countries is not as expected…Government alone cannot do it.”

Officials, legislators and health experts from Anglophone Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria are to meet in Abuja next week to chart sustainable ways for the region’s government to pay for immunisation.

But NIFT, set up last year by NPHCDA, has suggested an “immunisation trust fund” to bridge the funding gap between funding from the Basic Health Care Provision Fund built into the National Health Act and traditional appropriation for routine immunization.
The trust fund is to pool funding from private sector, willing Nigerians, captains of industry, any willing donor—at the same time being a rallying point for evidence, advocacy and support for domestically-funded immunisation.

Nigeria’s immunisation funding gap is expected to rise from N1 billion next year to N40 billion by 2020 when all arrangement with the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI) runs out. GAVI began scaling down its co-payment for vaccines after a 2014 rebasing of Nigeria’s economy pushed gross national income from to $2950, surpassing the $1580 eligibility threshold for GAVI support.

Anyene said the loss of GAVI support has placed Nigeria’s immunization at a “critical stage where urgent action is needed to ensure sustainable financing for vaccines, devices, cold chain infrastructure

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/millions-at-risk-as-nigeria-runs-into-vaccine-debt/142138.html

My attention was drawn to the bold. In 2014 during administration of Jonathan, his Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala went behind health officials in the Ministry of Health to reward GAVI 2billiondollars. Few weeks after that administration lost power GAVI returned the favor and made Ngozi its Chairperson.
It is becoming apparently clear Ngozi is incapable of pulling her own weight. This is another back-end scheme to enrich her benefactors in foreign land by ripping Nigeria off. She has a quota contribution to make to enrich GAVI and secure her position. In the past it was through lending and currency devaluation championed by World Bank, her previous employer. Now our country.must cough up billions in foreign currency or our children will die.

What a heartless hippo!

this is not looking good for our children.

I still do not understand why we still gladly give poison to our kids. Vaccine debt/poison debt, another successful scam by the west. SMDH!

worksmart:
Good.
It is better to concentrate on preventative measures

ode.... what other preventive measure is better than vaccination?

Remove the smart from your name, you hear?

worksmart:
Good. It is better to concentrate on preventative measures

Vaccines are the preventive measures.
I never believed a total stranger could disappoint me so much.

worksmart:
Good.
It is better to concentrate on preventative measures

Bia, which other preventive measures are U talking abt or U don't knw the meaning or vaccination or is the immunization concept too difficult to understand? Oya go n Google it, do a research n tell me what you found out

so vaccine's still dey naija? ordinary hepatitis vaccine they won't give you not to talk of HPV vaccine.

Emekamex:
Millions of children may lose access to life-saving vaccines if Nigeria doesn’t come up with a way to pay a vaccine debt that could rise to N40 billion by 2020, public health experts have said.

Dr Ben Anyene, chairman of the National Immunisation Financing Task Team (NIFT) says,“Without adequate funding for vaccines, the routine immunisation system will experience setbacks such as stockouts of vaccines that will ultimately lead to increased illness and/or deaths from vaccine preventable diseases.”

Speaking in Abuja ahead of a peer-review workshop next week for officials from five Anglophone countries, he said up to 7.5 million children in need of routine vaccination every year could be affected by the shortage of sustainable financing for immunisation—and others across Anglophone West Africa.

According to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, full immunisation using available vaccines costs around N4,000 per child.
Introduction of new vaccines, including rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, human papilloma vaccine and meningitis A, will push the cost to N14,000 per child, an increase from current $274 million to $435 million a year.

Nigeria pays only 25% of the cost, the rest of it sourced from international partners and donors.
The agency has also projected Nigeria will need $210 billion to fund polio campaign until the country is declared polio-free after going three years without the virus by July 24 next year.

NPHCDA executive director Dr Muhammad Ado says Nigeria has secured funding for polio campaign this year but needs $284 million for 2017. Of that figure, some $8m is to come from government funding.
“Domestic funding for immunisation has to increase,” said Ado. “Domestic funding from Anglophone countries is not as expected…Government alone cannot do it.”

Officials, legislators and health experts from Anglophone Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria are to meet in Abuja next week to chart sustainable ways for the region’s government to pay for immunisation.

But NIFT, set up last year by NPHCDA, has suggested an “immunisation trust fund” to bridge the funding gap between funding from the Basic Health Care Provision Fund built into the National Health Act and traditional appropriation for routine immunization.
The trust fund is to pool funding from private sector, willing Nigerians, captains of industry, any willing donor—at the same time being a rallying point for evidence, advocacy and support for domestically-funded immunisation.

Nigeria’s immunisation funding gap is expected to rise from N1 billion next year to N40 billion by 2020 when all arrangement with the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI) runs out. GAVI began scaling down its co-payment for vaccines after a 2014 rebasing of Nigeria’s economy pushed gross national income from to $2950, surpassing the $1580 eligibility threshold for GAVI support.

Anyene said the loss of GAVI support has placed Nigeria’s immunization at a “critical stage where urgent action is needed to ensure sustainable financing for vaccines, devices, cold chain infrastructure

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/millions-at-risk-as-nigeria-runs-into-vaccine-debt/142138.html

You see that!! Only one of our former Thieves In Government can solve this problem, but FOR WHERE??

I BLAME BUHARI

Ozize:
I still do not understand why we still gladly give poison to our kids. Vaccine debt/poison debt, another successful scam by the west. SMDH!

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our mind. ooooohuu! Have no fear for atomic energy. 'cause none of them can stop the time. Redemption song. Redemption song.

Emekamex:
Millions of children may lose access to life-saving vaccines if Nigeria doesn’t come up with a way to pay a vaccine debt that could rise to N40 billion by 2020, public health experts have said.

Dr Ben Anyene, chairman of the National Immunisation Financing Task Team (NIFT) says,“Without adequate funding for vaccines, the routine immunisation system will experience setbacks such as stockouts of vaccines that will ultimately lead to increased illness and/or deaths from vaccine preventable diseases.”

Speaking in Abuja ahead of a peer-review workshop next week for officials from five Anglophone countries, he said up to 7.5 million children in need of routine vaccination every year could be affected by the shortage of sustainable financing for immunisation—and others across Anglophone West Africa.

According to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, full immunisation using available vaccines costs around N4,000 per child.
Introduction of new vaccines, including rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, human papilloma vaccine and meningitis A, will push the cost to N14,000 per child, an increase from current $274 million to $435 million a year.

Nigeria pays only 25% of the cost, the rest of it sourced from international partners and donors.
The agency has also projected Nigeria will need $210 billion to fund polio campaign until the country is declared polio-free after going three years without the virus by July 24 next year.

NPHCDA executive director Dr Muhammad Ado says Nigeria has secured funding for polio campaign this year but needs $284 million for 2017. Of that figure, some $8m is to come from government funding.
“Domestic funding for immunisation has to increase,” said Ado. “Domestic funding from Anglophone countries is not as expected…Government alone cannot do it.”

Officials, legislators and health experts from Anglophone Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria are to meet in Abuja next week to chart sustainable ways for the region’s government to pay for immunisation.

But NIFT, set up last year by NPHCDA, has suggested an “immunisation trust fund” to bridge the funding gap between funding from the Basic Health Care Provision Fund built into the National Health Act and traditional appropriation for routine immunization.
The trust fund is to pool funding from private sector, willing Nigerians, captains of industry, any willing donor—at the same time being a rallying point for evidence, advocacy and support for domestically-funded immunisation.

Nigeria’s immunisation funding gap is expected to rise from N1 billion next year to N40 billion by 2020 when all arrangement with the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI) runs out. GAVI began scaling down its co-payment for vaccines after a 2014 rebasing of Nigeria’s economy pushed gross national income from to $2950, surpassing the $1580 eligibility threshold for GAVI support.

Anyene said the loss of GAVI support has placed Nigeria’s immunization at a “critical stage where urgent action is needed to ensure sustainable financing for vaccines, devices, cold chain infrastructure

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/millions-at-risk-as-nigeria-runs-into-vaccine-debt/142138.html

That's very serious issue. I hope the government of this beautiful country is working on that issue to save the current and yet to come kids. All the best.

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