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Are Nigerian Healthcare Workers Taking the COVID-19 Vaccine?

What started as an outbreak in distant Wuhan, China, is now what the average Nigerian is very familiar with – the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease. It would be strange to meet anyone who has never heard about COVID-19. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease as a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020, and since then, country leaders have striven to prevent the entry of the virus into their countries and/or its spread within their borders.
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Primary Health Care In Nigeria: 42 Years After Alma Ata Declaration

In Nigeria, PHC services are delivered by PHC Centers, Basic Health Clinics (BHC) and Comprehensive Health Centers (CHC), with over 30,000 of these facilities spread across 9565 Wards in 774 Local Government Areas [2]. With oversight by the Local Government Authorities (LGAs), majority of these facilities are in the rural, underserved and hard-to-reach areas to ensure improved equity and access to health services.
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A Tale of Two Pandemics

It was 1981 in Los Angeles, USA and five young previously healthy gay men had come down with a rare lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). At the same time in New York and California there were reports of a similar group of men succumbing to an unusually aggressive cancer named Kaposi’s Sarcoma.
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