(IPS) -- The Global Killer You Never Heard Of

October 24, 2008

Although a safe and effective vaccine has been available for eight years now, 1.6 million people still die from pneumococcal diseases every year...
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(BBC Online -- Vaccine Call for 'Silent Killer'

October 18, 2008

When little Nayeem Hossain became sick at his home in a village in Bangladesh, his family were desperately worried...
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(BBC Radio Africa) - Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Disease in Africa

October 14, 2008

Professor Tumani Corrah from The Gambia outlines why pneumonia is such a problem in Africa...
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(Express News Service) -- Pneumonia Kills Four Lakh Indian Kids Every Year.

September 26, 2008

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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(Nigerian Tribune) -- Pneumonia Deadlier than AIDS

August 18, 2008

A professor of Paediatrics at the University College Hospital...said pneumonia was a disease that claimed more children than AIDS...
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(The New Vision) -- Pneumonia the Forgotten Top Child Killer

August 17, 2008

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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(The Press Christchurch) -- Taking Steps to Save the World's Children

July 30, 2008

It's time for the world to get serious about pneumococcal disease...
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(South China Morning Post) -- Health Threats to Children May Be Underestimated

July 13, 2008

The incidence of pneumococcal diseases - caused by bacterial infections that can maim and kill under-fives...
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(Sydney Herald) -- A Shot At Life In Africa.

June 22, 2008

As children in Africa die from meningitis and pneumonia, a doctor races to deliver a vaccine...
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(Daily Nation, Kenya) -- Kenya's Leadership Sets an Example.

June 16, 2008

Kenya makes decision to include pneumococcal vaccines in Kepi programme with implementation beginning in the near future...
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(Antara, Indonesia) -- Doctors Across Asia Unite to Prevent Disease.

June 13, 2008

ASAP calls on Indonesian Government to urgently include PCV on national immunization schedule...
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(Antara, Indonesia) -- Burden of Pneumococcal Disease High Among Indonesian Children Younger Than Five.

June 10, 2008

New studies presented at ISPPD...
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(News Post, India) -- Top Indian Paediatrician Body To Lobby For Pneumonia Vaccine.

April 10, 2008

Indian Academy of Paediatrics to lobby health ministry to introduce the vaccine...
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(Star-Ledger, USA) -- Fighting a Silent Killer - Pneumonia.

April 10, 2008

Interview with Orin Levine, head of PneumoADIP on crusade to stop the biggest killer of the world's children...
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(Science Daily) -- Pneumococcal Disease Rates Down Significantly Post-Vaccine.

March 20, 2008

CDC reports significant drop in invasive pneumococcal disease...
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(Health Republic) -- Pneumococcal Jab Saves Children's Lives.

January 8, 2008

UK Department of Health called for more children to be given the pneumococcal vaccine...
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Investing in Vaccines, Children and the Future: Pneumococcal Prevention in Asia-Pacific

December 19, 2007

According to WHO, up to 1 million children die each year of pneumococcal disease.
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Vaccines for South Asia and the World

September 21, 2007

Vaccination rates among children have risen dramatically but it is important to continue the efforts...
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Meeting to Highlight Burden of Meningitis and Pneumonia

April 1, 2007

HIB & Pneumococcal disease--two major causes of life-threatening meningitis and pneumonia in South Asian children...
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New Fund to Subsidize Pneumonia, Meningitis Vaccines

February 12, 2007

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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Bid to Create Market for Vaccines

February 9, 2007

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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Eliminating Childhood Killers

January 25, 2007

African leaders will explore how scientific innovations can improve the lives of people across the continent
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Vaccines for the Vulnerable Around the World

January 3, 2007

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