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EVENTS

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The Missing Piece: Why continued neglect of pneumonia threatens the achievement of health goals
Released by JustActions, 12 November 2018. "Despite progress in reducing child pneumonia deaths, man...
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APPLY NOW to the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge
Photo by WHO Regional Officer for Africa, July 2018: Dr. Moeti meeting with the Minister of Health Maria de Jesus Trovoada dos Santos.  The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region has la...
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2018 Partners’ Forum: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health, December 12-13, 2018
2018 Partners’ Forum: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child HealthNew Delhi, India. December 12-13, 2018 PMNCH will bring together 1,200 partners dedicated to the Every Woman Every Child ...
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15th WINFOCUS World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical Care
Mark your calendars for the 15th WINFOCUS World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical Care Event, 21st- 24th February, 2019 at Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre, Dubai, UAE....
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APPLY NOW: Call for Influenza Vaccines for the World (IVW) 2019 Conference abstracts
Influenza Vaccines for the World (IVW) 2019Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland UK. April 2-4, 2019 IVW 2019 is the seventh international conference and exhibition in this imp...
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BLOGS

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03 December 2018
Fighting childhood pneumonia in Africa: Are antibiotics necessary for treatment of non-severe fast breathing child pneumonia?
Blogs
by Evangelyn Nkwopara, Senior Research Manager and Clinical Trials Specialist at Save the Children US It is 7:30AM in a small district hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, and the pediatric triage unit is packed full of anxious parents seeking care for thei...
27 November 2018
World Pneumonia Day 2018 Media Round-Up
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IMAGE: PNEUMONIA IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH OF CHILDREN GLOBALLY. (UNITED NATIONS PHOTO/FLICKR.COM/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Authored by the Every Breath Counts Coalition  Is it our imagination or was it harder than ever to get the media to pay attention t...
13 November 2018
The vaccine saving the lives of Pacific children
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By Associate Professor Fiona Russell, University of MelbournePublished in PURSUIT, University of Melbourne. 13 November 2018.   This week, we marked World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in children worldwide,...
02 November 2018
Towards Elimination of Pneumococcal Disease
Blogs
Towards Elimination of Pneumococcal Diseaseby Mark Alderson, Director of the Pneumococcal Vaccine Project at PATH, photos by Lauren Newhouse (PATH) and Mark Alderson (PATH) Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) have now been introduced into many cou...

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03 December 2018
December 2018 Member Newsletter
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Above, Story Central Photo by Guilhem Alandry, Save the Children: Shipra with her son, Nirob who is 5 months and 20 days in Bosikali Village, Badalpur union, Ajmiriganj upazila, Habiganj Division, Bangladesh. Nirob has continuous sicknesses including pneumonia and he is malnourished.   A COMMENT FROM THE COORDINATORAs we head into the last month of 2018, we encourage you to take a moment to reflect on the tremendous efforts and accomplishments by members of our pneumonia community. We have had m...

WEBINARS

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Ultrasound and child pneumonia
Ultrasound and child pneumonia
Talks by:Cammie Lee and Taylor Salisbury (Results for Development/ R4D): “Measuring Pediatric Pneumonia Diagnosis Rates: An Application of Lung Ultrasound in Tanzanian Children Under Five” Tony Gades (Philips): “Philips Lumify Handheld Ultrasound: A ...
Oxygen and child pneumonia
Oxygen and child pneumonia
Talks by:Michael Hawkes (University of Alberta Department of Pediatrics & School of Public Health): “Solar Powered Oxygen Delivery”Also see “Solar-Powered Oxygen Delivery in Low-Resource Settings – A Randomized Clinical Noninferiority Trial” by H...
The Fight Against Pneumonia: Who Pays?
The Fight Against Pneumonia: Who Pays?
Talks by  Gatien de Broucker, Health Economist at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health: “The Cost of Illness: An Economic Approach to Include Patient, Caretakers and Healthcare Perspectives.” Michael Head and Rebecca Brown, Research Fello...

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