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09/26/2008

(Express News Service) -- Pneumonia Kills Four Lakh Indian Kids Every Year.
While we feel proud that India has the largest population of youths, it is also true that the country has the dubious distinction...

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08/18/2008

(Nigerian Tribune) -- Pneumonia Deadlier than AIDS
A professor of Paediatrics at the University College Hospital...said pneumonia was a disease that claimed more children than AIDS...

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08/17/2008

(The New Vision) -- Pneumonia the Forgotten Top Child Killer
She lies in bed drenched in sweat. Her left hand is lifted up as if calling for heavenly intervention to rescue her tiny soul from agony...

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07/30/2008

(The Press Christchurch) -- Taking Steps to Save the World's Children
It's time for the world to get serious about pneumococcal disease...

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07/13/2008

(South China Morning Post) -- Health Threats to Children May Be Underestimated
The incidence of pneumococcal diseases - caused by bacterial infections that can maim and kill under-fives...

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06/22/2008

(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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06/16/2008

(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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06/13/2008

(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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06/10/2008

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

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04/10/2008

(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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04/10/2008

(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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03/20/2008

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

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01/08/2008

(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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12/19/2007

Investing in Vaccines, Children and the Future: Pneumococcal Prevention in Asia-Pacific
According to WHO, up to 1 million children die each year of pneumococcal disease.

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09/21/2007

Vaccines for South Asia and the World
Vaccination rates among children have risen dramatically but it is important to continue the efforts...

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04/01/2007

Meeting to Highlight Burden of Meningitis and Pneumonia
HIB & Pneumococcal disease--two major causes of life-threatening meningitis and pneumonia in South Asian children...

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02/12/2007

New Fund to Subsidize Pneumonia, Meningitis Vaccines
The Government of five developed countries committed $1.5 billion to provide low-cost vaccines for some of the world's...

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02/09/2007

Bid to Create Market for Vaccines
The UK and other leading industrialized nations are setting up a 750M GBP ($1.5BN) fund to speed up the development of new vaccines for use in poorer countries...

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01/25/2007

Eliminating Childhood Killers
African leaders will explore how scientific innovations can improve the lives of people across the continent

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01/03/2007

Vaccines for the Vulnerable Around the World
It's Flu season, and many Americans have been to the doctor or school clinic for a Flu shot.

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