The Every Breath Counts Pneumococcal Vaccine Scorecard ranks the 20 countries where the most children's lives could be saved with 90% coverage of one of the most powerful childhood vaccines - the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)...
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 was killing...
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...
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. ...
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....
New Unitaid-funded initiative is a key step toward improving primary health care and reducing childhood mortality...
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...
The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. A snapshot through photos....
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...
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...