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NAFDAC Joins £3.7m Research Project to Detect Fake and Degraded Vaccines

NAFDAC Joins £3.7m Research Project to Detect Fake and Degraded Vaccines

NAFDAC has joined an international research consortium awarded £3.7 million by the UK Medical Research Council to develop better ways of detecting substandard, degraded and falsified vaccines. The three-year project is led by the University of Oxford’s Medicine Quality Research Group. Partners include Obafemi Awolowo University, the UK medicines regulator, the University of East London and a research unit in Thailand. In Nigeria, the project will support NAFDAC’s post-marketing vaccine surveillance through new screening tools, laboratory testing and studies on the cost-effectiveness of different methods. The research is expected to help regulators verify vaccine quality across the supply chain, strengthen immunisation programmes and improve public confidence in vaccines.

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Y
yemi

What practical changes could this three-year research project bring to vaccine checks in Nigeria once the detection methods are developed?

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J
jaruma

Exactly, the real value will be whether the methods can make routine vaccine screening more reliable in practice.

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F
femi

It is encouraging to see NAFDAC involved in research focused on both fake and degraded vaccines, since storage problems can matter too.

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K
kris

The funding figure sounds promising, but research participation alone will not solve the problem unless the resulting tools are actually used widely.

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M
mel

The useful outcome would be clear testing procedures and stronger checks across vaccine storage and supply chains after the project ends.

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