The Nigeria Government on Wednesday received a $9,261,920 grant from the Canadian government to support the scale-up of COVID-19 vaccine service among high priority risk groups and to strengthen the country’s health system.
Speaking at the launch of the Canada Global Initiative for Vaccine Equity (CanGIVE) grant in Abuja, the High Commissioner of Canada to Nigeria, Jamie Christoff, said the grant is another example of Canada’s historical institutional relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to provide support to Nigeria.
Mr Christoff said although COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency, it is still important to reinforce public health systems as part of an inclusive and sustainable recovery.
“We must intentionally link up these efforts with routine immunisation and other services,” he said.
“This can help, for example, to reach children who missed routine vaccinations over the pandemic. We know that ultimately, it takes a health system to turn a…