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02 Jun

The critical role of pneumonia-fighting vaccines in the context of COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goals

Expansion of "pneumonia-fighting” vaccines* during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond is critical. It will not only reduce the risk of increases in child pneumonia deaths from non-SARS-CoV-2 causes during the pandemic, but will also reduce the risk of adult co-infection with bacterial pneumonia and SARS-CoV-2,...

19:03 / Blog

08 May

Open Letter to Leaders of Global Coronavirus Response on Access to Medical Oxygen

Every Breath Counts calls on leaders to make oxygen central to its Global Coronavirus Response. This could not be more urgent....

04:40 / Blog / COVID-19 / Featured / News

23 Apr

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. ...

10:47 / Blog

11 Nov

Fighting for Breath: a call to action

Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year. It is a shocking demonstration of health inequities disproportionately affecting the most deprived and marginalised children in low- and middle-income countries....

08:04 / Blog / News / World Pneumonia Day

03 Apr

COVID-19 and The Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

Follow-up letter to Global Forum participants...

13:24 / Blog / Global Forum 2020

10 Mar

Open Letter to Global and National Health Leaders on COVID-19

The Every Breath Counts Coalition is extremely concerned that the COVID-19 virus will cross into the countries that are already experiencing heavy burdens of pneumonia deaths, especially among children, and is urging support for national preparedness to control an outbreak of viral pneumonia in these...

13:41 / Blog / Global Forum 2020

06 Mar

Every Breath Counts in Nigeria: A coalition to accelerate reductions in child pneumonia deaths

Read how the Every Breath Counts Coalition supported the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health to develop a Pneumonia Control Strategy between January 2019 and 2020. Coalition members including USAID, the Nigerian offices of Dalberg, Save the Children, UNICEF and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)...

11:51 / Blog / Global Forum 2020

18 Feb

Reflections on the inaugural Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

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...

07:39 / Blog / Global Forum 2020

14 Feb

The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. A snapshot through photos....

12:58 / Blog / Global Forum 2020

05 Nov

The Global Forum 2020: speaker biographies

We're delighted that the following people will be speaking at our inaugural Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. ALEXANDER KODWO KOM ABBAN Deputy Minister for Health, Ghana Hon. Alexander K.K. Abban is currently the Member of Parliament for the people of Gomoa West Constituency in the Central Region of...

10:49 / Blog / Global Forum 2020