Resources
Pneumonia & Diarrhea Progress Report, International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), John Hopkins University, 2024
The Missing Piece (Revised): Why the global pandemic is an inflection point for pneumonia control, Every Breath Counts, 2021
Trends in International Development Assistance to combat Pneumonia, Development Initiatives, 2020
The Missing Piece: Why continued neglect of pneumonia threatens the achievement of health goals, JustActions, 2018
Sizing Up Pneumonia Investment, University of Southhampton, 2018
Fighting for Breath: A call to action to stop children dying of pneumonia, Save the Children, 2017 (English French Spanish)
Country spotlights
- Mali (French)
- Niger (French)
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Child Health Spotlights by Save the Children and UNICEF, 2023
Country oxygen plans
Cambodia
- Oxygen Preparedness Plan, 2022-2025, Ministry of Health
Cameroon (coming)
- Read, Functional availability of medical oxygen for the management of hypoxaemia in Cameroon: A nationwide facility-based cross-sectional survey, Journal of Global Health, May 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo (coming)
Eswatini
- National Medical Oxygen Operational Plan, 2023-2025, Ministry of Health
Ethiopia
- Ethiopian Medical Oxygen Roadmap II, 2022-2027, Ministry of Health
- National Medical Oxygen and Pulse Oximetry Scale Up Road Map, 2016-2021, Ministry of Health
- Oxygen Supply Chain Management Guideline, 2023
- Medical Oxygen Plant Administrative Directive, 2023
- National Medical Oxygen and Devices Supply Planning and Forecasting Tool, 2023
Ghana
- National Medical Oxygen Policy, 2023, Ministry of Health
- Oxygen Operational Development Plan Framework, Ministry of Health
- Oxygen Operational Plan, Ministry of Health
Lao PDR
- Lao PDR’s Experience Managing COVID-19, 2020, Ministry of Health
Lesotho
- National Medical Oxygen Strategy and Scale-up Plan, 2023-2028, Ministry of Health
Liberia
- National Roadmap to Increase Access to Medical Oxygen in Liberia, 2021-2024, Ministry of Health
Madagascar
- Plan Strategique Nationale pour L’Oxygenotherapie, 2021-2023, Ministry of Health
Malawi
- Malawi National Medical Oxygen Ecosystem Roadmap, 2021-2026, Ministry of Health
- From production to patient: A roadmap to strengthen oxygen access in Malawi, 2022, PATH
Nigeria
- National Strategy for the Scale-up of Medical Oxygen in Health Facilities, 2023-2027, Ministry of Health
- National Policy on Medical Oxygen in Health Facilities, 2017-2022, Ministry of Health
- National Strategy for Scale up of Medical Oxygen in Health Facilities, 2017-2022, Ministry of Health
Rwanda
- National Oxygen Roadmap, 2021, Ministry of Health
- Closing the Oxygen Gap, Rwanda Biomedical Centre
Tanzania
- National Oxygen Plan, 2022, Ministry of Health
Uganda
- National Scale-up of Medical Oxygen Implementation Plan, 2018-2022, Ministry of Health
Vietnam
- National Oxygen Strategy (COVID-19 patients), 2021, Ministry of Health
Zambia
- Zambia National Medical Oxygen Strategic Plan, 2022-2026, Ministry of Health
National medical oxygen strategies/plans currently under development
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ecuador, Kenya,* Lebanon, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tunisia
*Note the Kenya Ministry of Health has also released several documents relating to medical oxygen, including:
- Guidelines on Production, Delivery, and Equipments, 2024
- Technical Specifications for Devices and Equipments, 2024
- Technical Review on Oxygen Supply, 2020
Somalia and Afghanistan have conducted workshops that produced excellent reports including:
Top pneumonia videos
- Air Liquide: Access Oxygen
- Clinton Health Access Initiative: Oxygen in Nigeria
- Every Breath Counts, Every Step Counts
- “la Caixa” Foundation and UNICEF, Nepal
- McCann Global Health, Signs of Pneumonia: Chest Indrawing
- McCann Global Gealth, Signs of Pneumonia: Fast Breathing
- Masimo and United4Oxygen, Ethiopia
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- PATH, HO2PE
- Philips India, HarSaansMeinZindagi
- PneumoLight: World Pneumonia Day
- Seeker, Here’s Why Pneumonia Is Still So Deadly
- ZMQ/Philips, Beloved Munna
Childhood pneumonia evidence reviews
From the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and the University of Melbourne, 2022-2023
- Impact of PCV10 or PCV13 on severe pneumonia hospitalisation rates and mortality in children 0-9 years old
- Risk factors for child pneumonia death in low- and middle-income countries
- Impact of the introduction of PCV 10 and PCV13 on antimicrobial-resistant pneumococcal disease and carriage
- Treating child pneumonia in low-resource settings without antibiotics
- Utility of chest x-ray and lung ultrasound in the management of children with severe pneumonia in low-and middle-income countries
- Slow progress in pneumonia control for children in low-and-middle income countries as measured by pneumonia indicators
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) for severe pneumonia in low- and middle-income countries
- Clinical, epidemiological and demographic predictors of tuberculosis in children with pneumonia
- Clinical features of pneumonia in children aged 5-9 years; implications for guidelines and research
- Review of the role of additional child pneumonia treatments including oseltamivir, oral steroids, macrolides, and vitamin supplementation
- Clinical outcomes of pneumonia with a penicillin-group resistant pneumococcus in respiratory and blood culture specimens in children in low- and middle-income countries
- Quality of care for children with acute respiratory infections in health facilities: comparative analysis of assessment tools
- Aetiology of childhood pneumonia in low- and middle-income countries in the era of vaccination
- Childhood pneumonia in humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries