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12 Nov

Leading International Child Health Agencies Join Forces to Increase Access to the Most Effective Antibiotic Treatment for Children with Pneumonia

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...

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12 Nov

Pneumonia Remains the Leading Killer of Children Despite Decline in Global Child Deaths

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...

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10 Nov

Every Woman Every Child joins forces with the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia

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...

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08 Nov

Listen up: the pneumonia revolution is coming

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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08 Nov

Protecting Haitian Children in Tent Cities from Infectious Disease like Pneumonia

By the Haitian Pediatric Society | Nearly three years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, many people in the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince still live under tents provided through humanitarian aid from other countries. The Haitian Pediatric Society (Societe Haitienne de Pediatrie or SHP)...

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07 Nov

Sounding the Alarm

By Ojong Merilyne Nchare and Mokwe Welisane Nkeng | Growing up as children in Africa, my siblings and I watched our ailing grandmother hold on to life. When she died, we children buried her, because as she used to say: that is the way things...

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29 Oct

The biggest scandal in global health today: Why are 2 million children dying from pneumonia and diarrhea every year?

By By Leith Greenslade, MDG Health Alliance | Global health is like a juggernaut. It is very hard to turn around if it gets set on the wrong course. Yet when it comes to the health of the world’s most vulnerable children, this...

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09 Oct

What do we really know about Pneumonia?

By Vina Caradang, Immunization Partners in Asia Pacific (IPAP) | I have been trying to recall the earliest time when I first heard of pneumonia or “pulmonya” as we call it here in the Philippines. And I realized I could have been 4 or...

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25 May

Integrating Interventions and Maximizing Opportunities: Searching for Best Practices in South Africa

By Dr. Adam L. Cohen, CDC Pretoria | When I moved to South Africa a year and a half ago to work for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on surveillance for pneumonia and influenza, I didn’t realize how much pneumonia affects communities...

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27 Apr

Combating pneumonia and child mortality in Zambia

Pneumonia is the second leading cause of child mortality in Zambia. But Episcopal Relief & Development, in partnership with the Zambian Anglican Council and the Zambian Ministry for Health and other stakeholders, are targeting the disease in an integrated way. Building on the successful bed...

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