Assessing the contributions of private health facilities in a pioneer private-public partnership in childhood immunization in Nigeria

The vision of Nigeria's immunization program is to reach and sustain routine immunization coverage of greater than 90% for all vaccines by 2020. In order to achieve this, Abia state embarked on a unique private-public partnership (PPP) between private health facilities and the Abia state minist...

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Main Authors: Chukwuemeka Oluoha (Author), Chukwuemeka Umeh (Author), Hycienth Ahaneku (Author)
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Published: AOSIS, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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