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....
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....
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....
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....