Nigeria receives one million Gavi-funded vaccine doses to combat meningitis

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare received over one million pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile this week to combat the meningococcus C and W outbreak in northern Nigeria.

This was disclosed in a joint press statement on Friday by the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, the World Health Organisation, and the United Nations Children’s Fund.

According to the Nigeria Centre for…