For the 340 million adults and children who get sick with pneumonia each year, the costs of treatment can be catastrophic - as individuals and families are forced to pay out-of-pocket for healthcare. Every Breath Counts is launching a new campaign to document these crippling...
Oxygen is an essential medicine. Yet it remains beyond the reach of the poorest & most vulnerable. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified high out-of-pocket costs for oxygen across the world, exposing the tragic results when patients cannot afford to pay....
How do we design and implement national oxygen road maps for comprehensive and sustainable oxygen scale up? Read the case study from Ethiopia ...
Good data is critical to equitably improve access to medical oxygen. But there is a paucity of data on oxygen availability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is a call to action to fill the data gaps and ensure every breath counts....
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....
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....
Children and adults living in countries that do not offer pneumonia-fighting vaccines are dangerously exposed to pneumonia and at risk of infecting others....
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. ...
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....
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....