Our Mission is to improve child survival and health by accelerating the evaluation of and acces to new, lifesaving pneumococcal vaccines for the world's children.

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June 22, 2008

(Sydney Herald) -- A Shot At Life In Africa. As children in Africa die from meningitis and pneumonia, a doctor races to deliver a vaccine...

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June 16, 2008

(Daily Nation, Kenya) -- Kenya's Leadership Sets an Example. Kenya makes decision to include pneumococcal vaccines in Kepi programme with implementation beginning in the near future...

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June 13, 2008

(Antara, Indonesia) -- Doctors Across Asia Unite to Prevent Disease. ASAP calls on Indonesian Government to urgently include PCV on national immunization schedule...

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June 10, 2008

(Antara, Indonesia) -- Burden of Pneumococcal Disease High Among Indonesian Children Younger Than Five. New studies presented at ISPPD...

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April 10, 2008

(Star-Ledger, USA) -- Fighting a Silent Killer - Pneumonia. Interview with Orin Levine, head of PneumoADIP on crusade to stop the biggest killer of the world's children...

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April 10, 2008

(News Post, India) -- Top Indian Paediatrician Body to Lobby for Pneumonia Vaccine. Indian Academy of Paediatrics to lobby health ministry to introduce the vaccine...

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March 20, 2008

(Science Daily) -- Pneumococcal Disease Rates Down Significantly Post-Vaccine. CDC reports significant drop in invasive pneumococcal disease...

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January 8, 2008

(Health Republic) -- Pneumococcal Jab Saves Children's Lives. UK Department of Health called for more children to be given the pneumococcal vaccine...

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The Pneumococcal vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan is based
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is funded by GAVI Alliance.