Federal Government Targets 100m Children For Immunisation Against Measles, Others

The national authorities has launched what it described arsenic Africa’s biggest integrated wellness campaign, targeting implicit 100 cardinal Nigerian children for vaccination against measles, rubella, polio, and the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), among different preventable diseases.

The coordinating curate of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, who spoke astatine the nationalist flag-off ceremonial astatine the statesmanlike Villa,Abuja, said the inaugural marked “a historical moment” successful Nigeria’s wellness strategy and the largest integrated run ever conducted connected the continent.

Pate said the campaign, led by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), was an expanded thrust to present aggregate vaccines and wellness services together, ensuring that “no 1 is near behind.”

“This is not lone astir vaccination,” Pate said. “It is astir reimagining however we present wellness services to our people—getting arsenic adjacent to them arsenic we tin and ensuring that nary 1 is near behind.”
The Minister attributed the milestone to the enactment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose Renewed Hope Agenda, helium said, had repositioned wellness arsenic a cardinal pillar of Nigeria’s nationalist development.

“At the bosom of this milestone is the imaginativeness and committedness of our President,” Pate noted. “His enactment has provided an enabling situation for the reforms present transforming our wellness sector.”

He added that the President’s prioritisation of wellness was evident successful the caller translation of the superior wellness attraction system, with installation utilisation rising from 10 cardinal visits per 4th successful 2023 to 47 cardinal successful the 2nd 4th of 2025—a astir fourfold increase.

Designed initially arsenic a measles and rubella campaign, Pate said the inaugural was expanded—under the enactment of the NPHCDA’s Executive Director, Dr. Muyi Aina—to see polio, malaria, HPV, regular immunisation, and the attraction of neglected tropical diseases.

“These are not simply neglected tropical diseases—they are diseases of neglected people,” the Minister said. “This run is an effort to alteration that.”

He noted that the integrated run represents 1 of the largest nationalist wellness undertakings successful Nigeria’s past and would assistance support millions of children and families from preventable diseases.

Pate besides paid glowing tribute to the First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, for her progressive engagement and idiosyncratic concern successful improving women’s and children’s wellness crossed the country.

Highlighting caller achievements, the Minister disclosed that the government, successful collaboration with states and improvement partners, was connected way to adhd 4,800 afloat functional superior wellness centres by the extremity of 2025.

He said implicit 15,000 women had truthful acold benefited from the Free Emergency Obstetric Care Initiative, which includes life-saving caesarean sections nether the President’s directive.

He besides mentioned the Mothers and Babies Implementation (MaMi) Programme, which supports hundreds of thousands of large women crossed the country.

Pate urged parents to guarantee their children person each indispensable vaccines, describing immunisation arsenic “safe, effective, and life-saving.”

“Every genitor desires what is champion for their child,” helium said. “No parent, erstwhile alert of what volition payment their child, volition garbage it. In a satellite of misinformation, fto america clasp accelerated to the information and support our children.”