May 11, 2010 - Preventable infectious diseases cause two-thirds of child deaths, according to a new study published today by The Lancet. Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF’s Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) assessed data from 193 countries...
by Associated Press New York Times-March 23, 2010 "GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Inc. made a 10-year commitment to supply developing nations with new pneumonia vaccines, the Geneva-based public-private partnership GAVI Alliance said Tuesday. GAVI's program to treat pneumococcal disease received initial funding of $1.5 billion from the governments...
By Andrew Pollack New York Times-March 23, 2010 "Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline will supply hundreds of millions of doses of their pneumonia vaccines to the world’s poorest countries at heavily discounted prices under a novel agreement announced Tuesday...
By: Duff Wilson The New York Times - February, 24 2010 "The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Prevnar 13, an expanded version of a vaccine to protect children against more forms of bacterial infections that can cause meningitis, pneumonia and other diseases. The new vaccine protects...
February 2, 2010 – President Obama has submitted his budget blueprint for Fiscal Year 2011. What follows is the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia’s statement on the global health component of the budget. “President Obama’s budget increases the U.S. commitment to global health, and looks...
Bill and Melinda Gates today announced an unprecedented investment of $10 billion over the next 10 years to support the research, development and delivery of life-saving vaccines for the world’s poorest countries. The Global Coalition against Pneumonia joins the Gates Foundation in its call to make...
February 1, 2010 "WHO pneumonia expert Dr. Thomas Cherian will be honored by a group of the world’s leading infectious disease experts today for his pivotal work to accelerate access to vaccines preventing pneumococcal disease, the world’s leading vaccine-preventable killer of children under age five. The...
Janurary 29, 2010 "Bill and Melinda Gates today announced an unprecedented investment of $10 billion over the next 10 years to support the research, development and delivery of life‐saving vaccines for the world’s poorest countries. This extraordinary investment – which is in addition to the $4.5 billion the...
By Rosalia Opondo and Margaret Kalekye Kenya Broadcasting Corporation- November 22, 2009 "Speaking in Nairobi on Sunday when she flagged off more than 2000 people for a run to raise funds for children affected by Pneumonia, Public Health Minister Beth Mugo said the government will next year...
Associated Press- November 20, 2009 "Starting next year an extra 6.3 million children worldwide will have the chance to feel that pinch and get vaccinated against some of the world's deadliest illnesses, according to the GAVI Alliance, a global vaccine partnership that helped organize the Hanoi...
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