This year, World Pneumonia Day will be held during a global pneumonia pandemic. By 12 November, COVID-19 is expected to cause 1.3 million deaths....
On 25 September 2020, the Access to Medicine Foundation and the Every Breath Counts Coalition co-hosted a first-of-its-kind virtual roundtable with industry, investors, global health agencies to explore opportunities to increase access to medical oxygen in low and middle-income countries. ...
How can countries solve complex vaccine decision-making? Vaccine Cost Calculators from PATH, available for rotavirus and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, help countries compare immunization program costs using different vaccine products to simplify decision-making....
Every Breath Counts underscores the critical role of access to medical oxygen in reducing deaths from COVID-19 across LMICs and appeals to the ACT-A Facilitation Council to guarantee significant, additional financial support is provided to help LMIC governments ensure that no COVID-19 patient dies...
Good data is critical to equitably improve access to medical oxygen. But there is a paucity of data on oxygen availability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is a call to action to fill the data gaps and ensure every breath counts....
Dr Shajib Hossain from the WHO office in Somalia describes how the country has used the WHO's COVID-19 Biomedical Equipment Inventory Tool for designated COVID-19 treatment facilities. The data generated was used to procure oxygen in ways that will strengthen the Somali health system for the long term. ...
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,...
Every Breath Counts calls on leaders to make oxygen central to its Global Coronavirus Response. This could not be more urgent....
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. ...
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....
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
