03
Apr
COVID-19 and The Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia
Follow-up letter to Global Forum participants...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
News and blog
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...
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)...
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...
14
Feb
The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia
The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. A snapshot through photos....
20
Dec
Testing pneumonia diagnostic aids in Ethiopia and Nepal
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...
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18
Dec
Improving access to tools that detect critically ill children
New Unitaid-funded initiative is a key step toward improving primary health care and reducing childhood mortality...
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16
Dec
More than 5 million children vaccinated in Africa & South America thanks to Alliance for Child Vaccination led by ”la Caixa”
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....
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13
Dec
Oxygen for every child who needs it: the Nigeria Oxygen Implementation Project
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....
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09
Dec
UNICEF and WHO combine forces with global experts to address the oxygen availability gap facing children with severe pneumonia
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. ...
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