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Nigeria is building a healthcare system that can protect its 10 million newborns each year without depending on foreign aid forever. The country just secured $500 million for vaccines while steadily growing its own health budget from 3.5% to 6% in three years.
Over 223,000 pregnant women in Nigeria are now being tracked through their entire pregnancy journey, and the results are saving lives. A new government program is showing measurable wins in a country that once accounted for nearly 28% of all maternal deaths worldwide.
Over one million children under five in Nasarawa State, Nigeria will receive polio vaccines during a four-day campaign starting March 28, 2026. Health teams will go door-to-door across all 13 districts to stop the virus after two cases appeared last fall.
