Examining corruption risks in the procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in select states in Nigeria

Figures & data

Fig. 1 Corruption in standard pharmaceutical procurement services compared to proper pharmaceutical procurement [5]

Table 1 Geographic and health facility data of State A and State B

Table 2 Demographic characteristics of respondents

Table 3 ACTA factors that impact access to COVID-19 vaccines

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Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.