The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), in partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is set to begin a nationwide measles and rubella vaccination catch-up campaign, targeting 100 million Nigerian children from October 2025.
The US CDC said it facilitated Nigeria’s access to a Gavi grant of nearly $33 million to vaccinate children aged 9 months to 15 years across the country as part of efforts to strengthen measles surveillance and outbreak response effort to detect, respond and end measles outbreaks, rapidly.
Measles remains a major cause of childhood illness and death globally, with Nigeria ranking among the top ten countries reporting the highest number of cases. In 2024 alone, Nigeria recorded over 20,000 suspected measles cases, of which approximately 10,000 were confirmed, according to the US CDC.
