The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said it procured 2.5 billion doses of vaccines for children in nearly 100 countries in 2016.
A statement signed by the UNICEF Chief of Communications in Abuja, Ms Doune Porter, said that the procurement made the organisation to be able to reach out to almost half of the world’s children under the age of five.
Porter said that the figures released in commemoration of the World Immunisation Week (WIW), made UNICEF the largest buyer of vaccines for children in the world.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that WIW runs between April 24 and 28 annually.
“Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the three remaining polio-endemic countries, each received more doses of vaccines than any other country.
“With almost 450 million doses of vaccines procured for children in Nigeria, 395 million in Pakistan…
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