Abuja, Nigeria Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has committed approximately 500 million dollars in support to Nigeria between 2026 and 2030, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare Muhammad Ali Pate wrote in a signed article published on 11 August setting out the country’s health financing transition.
Pate said Nigeria contributed more than 500 million dollars from domestic resources toward vaccine co-financing over the previous partnership period, and that health has risen from 3.48 percent of the federal budget to 4.3 percent, then 5.28 percent, and to 6 percent of the 2026 budget net of liabilities. Nigeria delivers a national immunisation schedule of nearly 13 antigens to a birth cohort of close to 10 million children a year.
He argued that new vaccine introductions “must therefore be judged not only by disease burden, but also by equity, affordability and the ability of the health system to deliver it,” and set a 2030 marker under which “fewer children should remain outside routine immunisation, differences between states should have narrowed.”
Why it matters: Donor transition is now a budget line rather than a slogan, and it sets the terms for every state level health programme through 2030.
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