Increasing coverage of vaccination by pharmacists in Nigeria; an urgent need

Public Health in Practice

Aniekan Ekpenyong¹  Muhammad Kabir Musa²  Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi³  Garba Mohammed Khalid⁴  Yusuf Hassan Wada⁵  Mohamed Babiker Musa⁶ 

[1] Corresponding author. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria.;West African Academy of Public Health, Abuja, Nigeria;Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria;Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria;Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria;Global Health Policy Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom;

关键词: Nigeria;    Vaccine;    Immunization;    Vaccination;    Pharmacists;    Community pharmacies;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Pharmacists have a key role to play to advance public health through immunization. Pharmacists are well trained and play a huge role in vaccine production, research and development, safety, pharmacovigilance, storage, logistics and distribution. There is a need for a revised national policy and strategy in Nigeria on vaccination and immunization programs with the involvement of community pharmacies and/or pharmacists. This will help accelerate getting a wider vaccination access coverage, establishing a greater healthcare delivery workforce for societal benefits and demonstrate the full potential of the community pharmacies and the pharmacists’ role in immunization programs.

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