Health Alliance Brings Pricy Pneumococcal Vaccine to Pakistan
Pakistan, where some 126,000 children under five years old die from pneumonia every year, launched a new pneumococcal vaccine Tuesday, making it the first South Asian country to do so. Pneumonia is the...
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Medical practitioners at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH), a leading government-run children’s hospital in Karachi, hope that this will be the last winter they have to treat a stream of...
View ArticleGlobal Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025....
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New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children
An eight-month-old boy with pneumonia is examined by a doctor at Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Credit: Kristin Palitza/IPSPATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is...
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