Open Letter to Leaders of Global Coronavirus Response on Access to Medical Oxygen
Every Breath Counts calls on leaders to make oxygen central to its Global Coronavirus Response. This could not be more urgent....
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Zero dose PCV children – dangerously exposed to pneumonia
Children living in countries that do not offer the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine are dangerously exposed to pneumonia, the biggest infectious killer in the world. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, pneumonia killed an estimated 2.6 million people each year. Post COVID-19 this number will rise exponentially. ...
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...
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...
1st Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia photo gallery
The first Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. A snapshot through photos....
Testing pneumonia diagnostic aids
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...
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...
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....
UNICEF and WHO combine forces to increase access to oxygen
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. ...
World Pneumonia Day – a decade on
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...