For three days in late January 2020, 400 individuals from 60 countries gathered in Barcelona to work out better ways to fight the leading infectious threat to child survival - pneumonia. Leith Greenslade, coordinator of the Every Breath Counts Coalition, a 40-member public-private partnership, reflects...
Despite global progress in fighting some of the deadliest diseases, including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, progress in combating one common infection — pneumonia — has been much slower. Even with the tools and resources we must defeat it: pneumonia remains the leading infectious killer of...
One year after the inaugural Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia, what progress has been made?...
Read about the successes and challenges of 16 countries one year after they met at the first-ever Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia in Barcelona....
The Every Breath Counts Coalition is calling on the ACT-Accelerator lead agencies for a COVID-19 Emergency Oxygen Response. ...
The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. A snapshot through photos....
One year after the launch of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) Oxygen Emergency Taskforce, what has been achieved? ...
Children and adults living in countries that do not offer pneumonia-fighting vaccines are dangerously exposed to pneumonia and at risk of infecting others....
New Unitaid-funded initiative is a key step toward improving primary health care and reducing childhood mortality...
The challenges in pneumonia diagnosis in low-resource settings have been well documented. The current method routinely used involves community health workers manually counting a child’s breath for one minute - the respiratory rate. This is often not done, or done poorly, frequently leading to misdiagnosis...