Sustainable financing for vaccination towards advancing universal health coverage in the WHO African region: The strategic role of national health insurance

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National Health Insurance (NHI) is a financing mechanism that can potentially be used to co-finance immunization programmes in Africa. Despite the growing number of NHI in the region, the extent to which they allocated resources to support recommended vaccines and vaccination services is unclear. This commentary in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics urges countries to explore this option to expand immunization financing.

  • Primary authorAbdu A. Adamu, Cochrane South Africa and Stellenbosch University
  • LanguageEnglish

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