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....
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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....
World Pneumonia Day – a decade on
In 2009, a diverse group of committed doctors, advocates, academics, UN officials and business people came together to change the way the world responded to pneumonia - the “forgotten killer of children”.[1] When they launched the first World Pneumonia Day in November, pneumonia was killing...
The Nigeria Oxygen Implementation Project
In 2015 we started the Nigeria Oxygen Implementation Project with the ambition of ensuring that every unwell child will receive oxygen therapy if they need it....
UNICEF and WHO combine forces to increase access to oxygen
Pneumonia kills more than 800,000 children every year, yet it is preventable and treatable. An estimated 13 per cent of children with pneumonia have hypoxemia, a condition that increases the risk of death by up to five times. ...
Pulse oximeters that work for everyone
There is growing evidence that pulse oximeters do not work effectively on darker skin tones. This is unacceptable. Every Breath Counts has launched a petition to change this....
A2O2 Resource Library
The A2O2 Resource Library is a platform for all things oxygen - covering every aspect of the oxygen ecosystem from planning to equipment to patient care....
Welcoming COVID-19 emergency oxygen response
Every Breath Counts welcomes the announcement by the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) of a $US1.6 billion COVID-19 Emergency Oxygen Response to help the worst-affected countries ensure that no more COVID-19 patients die for lack of oxygen....
Zero dose PCV children – dangerously exposed to pneumonia
Children living in countries that do not offer the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine are dangerously exposed to pneumonia, the biggest infectious killer in the world. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, pneumonia killed an estimated 2.6 million people each year. Post COVID-19 this number will rise exponentially. ...
Calculating vaccine costs
How can countries solve complex vaccine decision-making? Vaccine Cost Calculators from PATH, available for rotavirus and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, help countries compare immunization program costs using different vaccine products to simplify decision-making....