14 Feb 1st Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia photo gallery
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Hundreds signed the 1st Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia’s Declaration, challenging pneumonia’s status as a global cause without champions…
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More than 300 attendees from over 20 countries came together to strategize better ways to fight pneumonia, agreeing that, we are not fighting hard enough…
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Health Ministers like Uganda’s Dr Jane Ruth Aceng affirmed that fighting childhood pneumonia was a top priority of the government, but more support was needed…
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For the first, time youth activists like India’s Ridhima Pandey spoke out about the threat air pollution poses for an entire generation of children at greater risk of pneumonia…
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UNICEF’s Dr Stefan Peterson argued that we need to tackle pneumonia prevention, diagnosis, and treatment together, making sure all sections of the “pneumonia wheel” are full…
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Next generation researchers like PhD student Lois King from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, presented promising new avenues of inquiry that could deliver breakthrough solutions…
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Somalia’s Health Minister, Dr Fawziya Abikar Nur, argued that special approaches were needed to reach children with pneumonia in humanitarian settings…
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National Health Ministers called from greater support to increase vaccine coverage, improve care seeking, and timely, quality, affordable diagnosis and treatment…
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Johns Hopkins University estimated that action on pneumonia could prevent 9 million child deaths – 3.2 from pneumonia and 5.7 from other causes – between 2020 and 2030…
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The Nigerian State Minister for Health, Dr Adeleke Mamora, unveiled the first national Pneumonia Control Strategy to reduce child pneumonia deaths…
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The Indonesian Minister for National Planning and Development, Suharso Monoarfa, announced the introduction of the PCV financed through Gavi…
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Dr Keith Klugman from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation discussed the new $US2 per dose pneumococcal vaccine with the Serum Institute of India…
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Dr Kevin Baker from Every Breath Counts called for more infectious disease research funding into childhood pneumonia which currently attracts just 3% of funding…
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The Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Juan Pablo de la Iglesia, announced more support to Gavi to increase childhood vaccinations…
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Unitaid announced $US43 million to improve access to pulse oximetry to improve diagnosis of sick children across nine countries, in partnership with NGOs PATH and ALIMA…
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Sheillah Bagayana described how the FREO2 team was transforming access to medical oxygen across primary health care facilities in Uganda and Tanzania with their OxyLink solution…
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The Global Fund’s Michael Byrne encouraged governments to include the recommended pneumonia antibiotic – amoxicillin – in their Global Fund applications…
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Talk is cheap… WE MUST ACT together to prevent the deaths of our children from pneumonia, delegates took to the stage and declared during the closing ceremony…