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02 Feb

Global Coalition against Pneumonia Celebrates Gates Foundation’s Record $10 Billion Investment in Life-saving Vaccines

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...

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01 Feb

WHO Pneumonia Expert Recognized for Efforts to Ensure Children Receive Life-saving Vaccines

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...

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29 Jan

Bill and Melinda Gates Pledge $10 Billion in Call for Decade of Vaccines

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...

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22 Nov

Government to introduce Pneumonia vaccine

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...

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21 Nov

Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved

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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21 Nov

AIDS, malaria eclipse the biggest child-killers

By Margie Mason Associated Press- November, 19, 2009 "Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention...

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21 Nov

Prioritising simple, low cost interventions could save millions of children’s lives every year, says aid agency

by World Vision Alert Net- November 16, 2009 "The lives of millions of children in the developing world could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure provision of such low-cost, simple interventions as better nutrition and skilled birth attendants - that even the poorest countries...

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21 Nov

20 Health Ministers Appeal to Donors to Support Child Immunization Programs to Save Millions of Lives and Prevent Pneumonia and Diarrhoea

by GAVI Alliance Maxims News Network- November 16, 2009 "More than 20 health ministers from developing countries meeting for the 4th GAVI Alliance Partner’s Forum to highlight the progress and challenges in protecting children’s lives through immunization programmes (including rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases) have appealed to donors...

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19 Nov

United States Congress Recognizes World Pneumonia Day

H.RES.863, "Recognizing the scourge of pneumonia, urging the United States and the world to mobilize cooperation and focus resources to fight pneumonia and save children's lives, and recognizing November 2 as World Pneumonia Day," was introduced into the US Congress on October 23, 2009 and...

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14 Nov

Bravo Obama, viva USAID!

By Orin Levine Huffington Post-November 11, 2009 "The Obama administration made a terrific choice yesterday by deciding to appoint Raj Shah as the head of USAID, the government’s primary agency for international development...

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