The Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia announced today the theme of the 2014 World Pneumonia Day commemorations will be “Universal access to pneumonia prevention and care”. In the days leading up to World Pneumonia Day, celebrated every year on November 12, advocates will call upon governments to strengthen...
Why the World is Losing More Than 1 Million Children to Pneumonia Every Year by: Leith Greenslade, Co-Chair, Child Health, MDG Health Alliance Revolution, transformation, breakthrough, modernization, ingenuity, inspiration, invention, a.k.a. innovation. This is what is so desperately needed to fight the leading killer of children under...
The Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia announced today the theme of the 2013 World Pneumonia Day commemorations will be “Innovation". In the days leading up to World Pneumonia Day, celebrated every year on November 12, advocates will call upon governments to invest more in the...
In support of the Committing to Child Survival: A Promised Renewed global movement, UNICEF has published the 2013 Progress Report with updates on the trends and levels in under-five mortality over the past two decades. A Promise Renewed brings together key stakeholders committed to...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have released The integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhea (GAPPD) that details the strategic plan for reducing the death and illness caused by childhood pneumonia and diarrhea. Pneumonia and diarrhea claim...
Save the Children's new report, Superfood for Babies, estimates that breastfeeding immediately after birth could save the lives of 830,000 babies around the world every year. The report explains that earlier breastfeeding is also associated with exclusive breastfeeding through the first six months of...
Leading child health agencies have joined forces to announce plans to work together on an unprecedented scale to increase access to amoxicillin in dispersible tablet form – the recommended antibiotic treatment for children under five suffering from pneumonia.* In 2011, a staggering 1.3 million children...
Marking the fourth annual World Pneumonia Day, November 12th, world leaders and the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia are calling for major efforts in the fight against childhood pneumonia, which remains the number one killer of children under age five. Pneumonia claimed 1.3 million lives...
November 12, 2012, New York – On World Pneumonia Day, the United Nations Secretary-General’s global movement to advance the health of women and children, Every Woman Every Child, has joined forces with the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia to draw attention to the critical importance...
By Eric D. McCollum, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | The scene is familiar, an African healthcare worker with only several months of training but working as the community doctor, is setting up his temporary pediatric clinic in a remote village beneath the shade...
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