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On this World Pneumonia Day, we are reminded that that every 45 seconds, a child still dies from this disease - largest single infectious cause of death in children worldwide. That is more than 700,000 children under five every year. Pneumonia, combined with diarrhoea, accounts for 23% of all deaths...
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How results from a multi-country study encourage a review of current global policy and practice to save lives A blog by Golam Mothabbir, Senior Advisor, Health and Nutrition, Save the Children International – Bangladesh Country Office, and Eric Swedberg, Managing Director, Child Health, Department of Global Health, Save the Children, USA....
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By Ravinder Kaur What is four minutes in the course of a day? Trivial, one would think. But that is the tiny sliver of time it takes for India to lose one child to pneumonia. India has second highest burden of childhood pneumonia in the world with 30 million new...
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By Eric Swedberg and Steve Wall Hundreds of participants including government ministers and senior planners from high-burden countries, leaders of United Nations and multi-lateral development agencies, major donors, non-governmental organizations, corporations and pneumonia researchers will be meeting this week for the first ever Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia. During our...
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