By Dr. Orin Levine, Executive Director of PneumoADIP at Johns Hopkins Universtiy Huffington Post- October 2, 2009 "What disease kills more children than any other? If you answered AIDS, TB or malaria, you’d be wrong, but in good company. Four years ago, when our team at...
Bacterial co-infections worsen the impact of the H1N1 virus, CDC warns By JoNel Aleccia MSNBC- September 30, 2009 "Many people who've died from swine flu also have been infected with pneumonia bacteria, underscoring the need for vaccination against that bug, too, federal health officials said Wednesday...
October 1, 2009 "In the past two weeks, more than 40 organizations from countries including Bangladesh, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, China, the DRC, India, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, the Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand, and Uganda have joined the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia. This week,...
September 8, 2009 "This week the Global Coalition against Pneumonia welcomed new member, the Earth Institute, led by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs. The Millenium Villages Project, a flagship project of the Earth Institute, is a collection of 12 village clusters located in poor, rural parts...
By Dr Jagdish Chinnappa Deccan Herald- September 26, 2009 "Few experiences can be more wrenching than watching a child suffer illness or injury. As doctors, the emotional trauma — and we can think of no more apt expression — is much more intense when we are faced...
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: September 14, 2009 "A new study, published last week in the British journal Lancet, showed that invasive bacteria were an important cause of those children’s deaths and that many of the bacteria were the same kinds that affect children in wealthy...
All Africa- September 11, 2009 "Data from the study show that in 2000, there were an estimated 14.5 million cases of pneumococcal disease worldwide, and 826,000 children under 5 years of age died of the disease. Of the 14.5 million pneumococcal cases, 95% were attributable...
By Maggie Fox Reuters - September 10, 2009 "More than a million children die every year from two pneumonia-causing diseases easily prevented with vaccines, researchers reported on Thursday. Each year 1.2 million children under age 5 die from Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae B or Hib, they...
September 11, 2009 "New World Health Organization data to be published in this week's edition of The Lancet will shed new light on two leading causes of pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of children under age 5, both globally and within specific countries. The results, which...
Citing Urgency, Diverse Alliance Unites to Prevent the Leading Killer of Children Worldwide July 15, 2009 "Representatives from major health and humanitarian relief organizations are coming together to coordinate outreach efforts for the first-ever World Pneumonia Day on November 2, 2009. The growing coalition, which now encompasses...
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
