Nigeria’s child survival drive reaches 15.8m as sustainability questions loom

Businessday | 06-04-2026 10:22pm |

A large-scale child health intervention in northern Nigeria has reached 15.76 million children in just over two years, underscoring both the potential of mass public health campaigns and the challenge of sustaining them without long-term domestic funding. The Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mass Administration of Azithromycin in Nigeria (SARMAAN) Project, an evidence-based programme targeting

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