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

IF 1.9 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

International Journal of Health Planning and Management Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI:10.1002/hpm.3749

Muhammad Kabir Musa, Abdullateef Abdulsalam, Usman Abubakar Haruna, Farida Zakariya, Sanusi Muhammad Salisu, Bisola Onajin-Obembe, Suleman Hadejia Idris, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III

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Abstract

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.

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COVID-19 疫苗在非洲的浪费：尼日利亚案例。

世界卫生组织发起了一场运动，旨在到 2022 年中期将全球免疫接种率提高到 70%。然而，尽管全球的 COVID-19 疫苗接种率已达到约 64%，但尼日利亚的接种率仍有很大差距。迄今为止，只有 13.8% 的人口接种了推荐剂量的疫苗。这表明已接种疫苗和未接种疫苗的人群之间存在巨大差距。在疫苗接种存在巨大差距的情况下，COVID-19 疫苗在尼日利亚仍然存在浪费现象。据估计，截至 2021 年底，COVID-19 疫苗的浪费量已超过 100 万剂。由于疫苗可获得性、缺乏适当的储存设施、电力供应不足、不安全挑战以及健康宣传不足等威胁疫苗接种的综合因素，预计尼日利亚将出现更多的 COVID-19 疫苗浪费现象。这导致了相应的经济和机会损失。在本文中，我们将讨论尼日利亚 COVID-19 疫苗的浪费情况，包括原因以及可用于减少浪费的解决方案。

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International Journal of Health Planning and Management Multiple-

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4.50

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197

期刊介绍： Policy making and implementation, planning and management are widely recognized as central to effective health systems and services and to better health. Globalization, and the economic circumstances facing groups of countries worldwide, meanwhile present a great challenge for health planning and management. The aim of this quarterly journal is to offer a forum for publications which direct attention to major issues in health policy, planning and management. The intention is to maintain a balance between theory and practice, from a variety of disciplines, fields and perspectives. The Journal is explicitly international and multidisciplinary in scope and appeal: articles about policy, planning and management in countries at various stages of political, social, cultural and economic development are welcomed, as are those directed at the different levels (national, regional, local) of the health sector. Manuscripts are invited from a spectrum of different disciplines e.g., (the social sciences, management and medicine) as long as they advance our knowledge and understanding of the health sector. The Journal is therefore global, and eclectic.