Dangote, Gates foundations, others sign MoU on immunisation in Chad
Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global health partners to strengthen routine immunisation in Chad.
This is contained in a statement from the Aliko Dangote Foundation and signed by Anthony Chiejina on Tuesday in Abuja.
Chiejina said other partners who sealed agreement are the Gates Foundation, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the Government of Chad.
He said the MoU would help Chad to strengthen routine immunisation across the country’s 13 provinces over the next three years.
He said was building on an initial agreement signed in 2019 which covered 3 provinces.
Chiejina said the Managing Director/CEO of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou, signed the MoU on behalf of the Foundation.
He added that Youssoufou emphasised the importance of collaboration and sustained investment in health systems to protect every child in Chad.
“This partnership is a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when governments, development partners, and philanthropic organisations unite for a common goal.
”By strengthening routine immunisation and working to eradicate polio, we are giving children in Chad the chance to live healthier, more productive lives,” Youssoufou said.
Chiejina said that the three-year initiative would support Chad to increase routine immunisation coverage, particularly in underserved and hard-to-reach areas.
He added that it would mobilise resources and technical expertise to interrupt any remaining transmission of the poliovirus and enhance disease surveillance, health worker training, and vaccine supply chains.
”(It will) to promote community engagement using Community Reorientation Women Network initiative for demand generation for immunisation services and build sustainable local capacity to maintain high immunisation coverage beyond the duration of the MoU.”
The Government of Chad was represented by Prime Minister Allamaye Halina, and the Minister of Public Health, Abdelmadjid Abderahim, among others.
Halina underscored Chad’s commitment to achieving universal immunisation coverage and eliminating preventable childhood diseases.
The CEO of GAVI, Mrs Sania Nishtar, who joined the meeting virtually from Geneva said: “We would like to congratulate the government of Chad for the immense achievement with the previous MoU and the increases that has been recorded in vaccination coverages particularly with the reduction in zero dose children from 45% in 2017 to 16% in 2024.”
President of Global Development of the Gates Foundation, Chris Elias, said the new MoU was a vehicle to achieve the ambitions of the new Chadian 2025-2030 National Immunization Strategy.
Elias said it would set the country on the path to achieving the 80 per cent vaccination coverage target in Penta 3 from the current 67 per cent coverage.
“At the Gates Foundation, we reaffirm our commitment to the government of Chad to help it deliver its National Immunisation Strategy by providing a financing commitment of $3 million USD over the three years which will resource both the MoU implementation and the vaccination coverage survey.(NAN)
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