COUNTRY OF FOCUS – NIGERIA

Transformative investment Area : Ensuring Vaccine Quality and availability at all levels.

Strategy 1: Developing and maintaining a cadre of trained and professionally recognized logisticians to manage the supply chain.

Strategy 2: Maintaining a functional Cold Chain and vaccine distribution system.

Strategy 3: Monitoring of the temperature during all vaccine storage and transportation.

Strategy 4: Forecasting vaccine needs accurately for maximum efficiency and prevention of stock- outs.

Strategy 5: Maintain accurate vaccine management data for action.

Strategy 6: Exploit the full temperature sensitivity range of specific vaccines.

Strategy 7: Integrative vaccine and health supply systems safely

Strategy 8: Redesign immunization supply systems to maximize effectiveness and efficiency.

Strategy 9: Build global partnerships to support vaccine supply chains.

3 Prioritized Strategies:

1. Strategy 4: Forecasting vaccine needs accurately for maximum efficiency and prevention of stock- outs.

2. Strategy 2: Maintaining a functional Cold Chain and vaccine distribution system.

3. Strategy 5: Maintain accurate vaccine management data for action

This transformative investment is very important as the vaccines cost so much and if properly managed, will result in high effective means of reducing and preventing childhood mortality. It is very important that health workers have the right quantities of vaccines for each planned immunization session and the potency is assured if the right methods and equipment are used to store and transport the vaccines.

Prioritization tools to use for the strategies: