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\title{COVID-19 Vaccine Wastage in Africa: A case of Nigeria}



\author[1]{Muhammad Kabir Musa}%
\author[1]{Abdullateef Abdulsalam}%
\author[1]{Usman Abubakar Haruna}%
\author[2]{Farida Zakariya}%
\author[2]{Sanusi Muhammad Salisu}%
\author[3]{Bisola Onajin-Obembe}%
\author[4]{Suleman Hadejia Idris}%
\author[5]{Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III}%
\affil[1]{Nazarbayev University School of Medicine}%
\affil[2]{Global Health Focus}%
\affil[3]{University of Port Harcourt College of Health Sciences}%
\affil[4]{Ahmadu Bello University Faculty of Medicine}%
\affil[5]{London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Department of Global Health and Development}%


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  \date{June 16, 2024}


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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched campaigns to boost
immunization rates to 70 percent globally by the middle of 2022.
However, despite the global success of about 64\% COVID-19 vaccination
coverage, there is a big gap in Nigeria. To date, only 13.8\% of the
population has received the recommended dose. This demonstrates a
significant disparity between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
Amidst the wide gap in vaccination, COVID-19 vaccine wastage still
occurs in Nigeria. At the end of 2021, it was estimated that over a
million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been wasted. It is anticipated
that there will be more COVID-19 vaccine wastage in Nigeria, because of
the combined factors that threaten vaccination uptake including vaccine
hesitancy, lack of appropriate storage facilities, poor electricity
supply, insecurity challenges, and inadequate health promotion. This
results in concomitant financial and opportunity losses. In this paper,
we discuss COVID-19 vaccine wastage in Nigeria including causes, and
solutions that can be applied to mitigate this wastage.%
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