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...
New Unitaid-funded initiative is a key step toward improving primary health care and reducing childhood mortality...
Vaccination saves lives, especially in countries where access to healthcare is still a challenge. More than five million children in vulnerable areas of Africa and Latin America have been vaccinated since the launch, more than 10 years ago, of the Child Vaccination Programme....
In 2015 we started the Nigeria Oxygen Implementation Project with the ambition of ensuring that every unwell child will receive oxygen therapy if they need it....
Pneumonia kills more than 800,000 children every year, yet it is preventable and treatable. An estimated 13 per cent of children with pneumonia have hypoxemia, a condition that increases the risk of death by up to five times. ...
Every day, preventable deaths occur because of a lack of medical oxygen. Medical oxygen treats a wide range of critical conditions - premature infants in respiratory distress, mothers with obstetric emergencies, children suffering from pneumonia....
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...
In a rural town in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, Wondu has again been admitted to Woreta Health Center. Wondu has been in and out of the center more than a dozen times already and he isn’t even two. His parents thought he was just...
December 2019 What proportion of children with symptoms of pneumonia are taken to an appropriate health provider? Just 55 % of children with suspected pneumonia are taken to a health facility in the 60 countries where 97% of child pneumonia deaths are occurring. In countries, such as...
12 November 2019 In 2009, a diverse group of committed doctors, advocates, academics, UN officials and business people came together to change the way the world responded to pneumonia - the “forgotten killer of children”.[1] When they launched the first World Pneumonia Day in November, pneumonia...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
