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Fighting for breath - A call to action on childhood pneumonia [1]

This report focuses on what is now the single biggest cause of child deaths through infectious disease. Pneumonia is a disease of poverty. Fatalities are concentrated in the world’s poorest countries. Within those countries it is the poorest and most disadvantaged children who face the greatest risks. This report shows how decisive national policies backed by international cooperation could save 5.3 million lives by 2030.

Publication Date: 
02/11/2017
Save the Children [2]
Tags:
Pneumonia [3], Child Health [4], Health Care [5], Diagnostic Methods [6], Vaccination [7], India [8], South Asia [9], Africa [10]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/fighting-breath-call-action-childhood-pneumonia

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/fighting-breath-call-action-childhood-pneumonia
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/save-children
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pneumonia
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/child-health
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/diagnostic-methods
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vaccination
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa