(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(Antara, Indonesia) -- Doctors Across Asia Unite to Prevent Disease. ASAP calls on Indonesian Government to urgently include PCV on national immunization schedule...
(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...
(News Post, India) -- Top Indian Paediatrician Body To Lobby For Pneumonia Vaccine. Indian Academy of Paediatrics to lobby health ministry to introduce the vaccine...
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.
Meeting to Highlight Burden of Meningitis and Pneumonia HIB & Pneumococcal disease--two major causes of life-threatening meningitis and pneumonia in South Asian children...
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...
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...
The Pneumococcal vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan is based
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is funded by GAVI Alliance.