In the report, IVAC identifies the 15 countries with the greatest number of deaths from pneumonia and diarrhea among children under the age of five in a given year.IVAC then uses a scoring method based on the Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Pneumonia and Diarrhea (GAPPD) developed by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. A country's "GAPPD score" measures the use of interventions that protect against, prevent and treat pneumonia and diarrhea. The higher the score, the more interventions are being used.
Thereportfocuses on action and innovation. These can be found in new technologies and approaches, but also in new ways of providing services, innovative thinking in reaching communities with existing tools and new or improved applications to help move the needle of progress and shrink existing inequities.
Keeping child health on the global agenda - @IVACtweets #pneumonia & #diarrhea report launch TODAY 12-1PM ET http://bit.ly/2eRNIav
A New Pneumonia Pocketbook
Advocates and practitioners seeking an all-inclusive guide to pneumonia need look no further than
Pneumonia in Children: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment. This is the first book to address the patient and population, frameworks often covered in separate publications.
Written by two of the world's foremost experts on pneumonia,
Kim Mulholland, MBBS, FRACP, MD, from Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and
Martin W. Weber, MD, PhD, from the World Health Organization, the book is set to become a standard reference on the subject.
Chapters explore childhood pneumonia, its prevention, treatment and public health control. Child health advocates would be particularly interested in the chapter on equity, an issue that makes their work all the more necessary.
We've been fumbling for words to raise awareness and we need your help. Lend your voice to children under-5 through the #PneumoniaFumbler Challenge in honor of World Pneumonia Day.
1. THE FUMBLER.
Learn the tongue twister:
Pretty please prevent pneumonia to protect precious lives
2. SAY IT FIVE TIMES FAST FOR THE UNDER-FIVES.
Record a video of yourself (or even better, your child!) saying the tongue twister five times fast. At the end of the video, invite others to take action by saying:
Visit StopPneumonia.org to learn how we can prevent and treat this disease!
3. TAG, YOU'RE IT!
Upload the video to Facebook or Twitter with #PneumoniaFumbler, and challenge your friends to raise awareness! Tag your policymaker to let them know you care about child health.
Resources for World Pneumonia Day 2016 are rolling in from members of the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia. Please find the latest in theResources Library:
Established in 2009, World Pneumonia Day is marked every year on November 12th to r
aise awareness about pneumonia, the world's leading infectious killer of children under the age of five; promote interventions to protect against, prevent and treat pneumonia; and generate action to combat pneumonia.
