Nigeria faces vaccine shortage as funding staggers

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Nigeria is facing a critical shortage of vaccines due to the non-release of budgetary allocations and declining donor support, a situation threatening the immunisation of millions of Nigerian children. Chika Offor, the executive director of the Vaccine Network for Disease Control, disclosed this

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