Trust grows as SARMAAN takes life-saving medicine to millions of children

Caregivers across northern Nigeria are placing growing trust in the health workers who bring a life-saving medicine to their doors, according to a new white paper on the Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mass Administration of Azithromycin (SARMAAN) programme.
The report, titled “From Trusted Messenger to Understood Medicine” and released in October, shows that caregivers’ trust in frontline health workers rose from 37 per cent in December 2025 to 84 per cent by August 2026.
Over the same period, the share of caregivers who believe the medicine is safe for their children climbed considerably and nearly every other measure of caregiver confidence tracked by the programme also impr...