Nigeria: 4.3M Kids Still Miss Out On Vaccinations

24 April 2018

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said 4.3 million children in Nigeria still miss out of routine vaccinations.

UNICEF stated that though Nigeria has made great strides in reducing deaths of under 5-year-old children from 158 to 120 per 1000 births between 2011 and 2016, but during the same period, vaccine immunization has declined.

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