Digital health tools for child survival
Electronic health tools like pulse oximetry are a critical component of the child survival agenda - offering a lifeline to those who urgently need oxygen therapy to breathe....
Articles
What is the future of GAPPD?
Every Breath Counts Coalition is calling on the World Health Assembly to review, update and extend the GAPPD to 2030 and ensure its alignment with the SDGs....
Wasting and Child Pneumonia Scorecard
Every Breath Counts Wasting and Pneumonia Scorecard 2021 ranks 40 countries home to 90% of wasting-related child pneumonia deaths ...
The critical role of pneumonia vaccines in an era of respiratory pandemics
Children and adults living in countries that do not offer pneumonia-fighting vaccines are dangerously exposed to pneumonia and at risk of infecting others....
Antimicrobial resistance and pneumonia
How do we reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics for the treatment of pneumonia and close any remaining access gaps for pneumonia patients, especially children, who are missing out?...
Air Pollution and Pneumonia Scorecard
This year, World Pneumonia Day is held during COP 26 – the UN Climate Change Conference. It is a critical moment to bring together the health, air quality and climate community to tackle the biggest infectious killer on the planet....
Pneumonia Care Seeking Scorecard
40% of children with symptoms of pneumonia are NOT taken to a healthcare provider in the 40 countries with 90% of child pneumonia deaths. Children living in poor households are least likely to be taken for care. ...
Who dies from air pollution?
It is the very young and the very old living in a handful of countries who are at greatest risk of air pollution-related death....
How to avert 1.63 million child deaths
The deaths of 1.63 million children under five could be prevented by 2030 with one of the most powerful pneumonia-fighting vaccines - the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)...
Introducing PCV in Somalia, Guinea, South Sudan, and Chad
More than 40,000 children died from pneumonia in Somalia, Guinea, South Sudan and Chad in 2019. Introducing PCV will protect kids from pneumonia and save lives....