have planned to deploy 5,002 vaccination teams in 11 states, targeting to vaccinate over 1.3 million persons every week.During the official launch of the country’s SCALES 3.0 Strategy, Boss Mustapha, Nigeria’s Secretary to the Government of the Federation , emphasized the need to take the vaccines to the people, noting that what the country is dealing with is not the shortage of vaccines but vaccines hesitancy by the people.
Also speaking at the launch, Dr. Faisal Shuaibu, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency , stated that after the launch of SCALES 2.0 Strategy 6 months ago to ramp up integrated vaccination, Nigeria’s vaccination coverage progressed from a 17million to 40million which represents over a 100% increase. “The SCALES 3.0 would be using a human-centered demand generation design to address low COVID-19 perceptions in the country,” he said.
The ultimate goal of the Africa CDC through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation is to accelerate the achievement of the goal set out by the African Union to have 70% of the African population vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of 2022.
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