WHO continues fight against SARS

Who is Funding What in the Fight Against Pneumonia?

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), including pneumonia, are a leading cause ofmortality globally. In 2013, an estimated 708,600 children aged 1 to 5 years of age died from LRTIsmaking it themain killer in this age group; approximately 99% of these deaths occurred in developing countries. (Nair et al., 2013; GBD2013Mortality andCauses of Death Collaborators, 2015). In developed countrie...

Fight against pneumonia.

Recently, WHO has decided to launch an annual “World Pneumonia Day” on November 2, 2009(1). The day will mobilize efforts to fight pneumonia, rightly called a ‘neglected’ or a ‘forgotten’ disease, that kills more than two million children under the age of five each year worldwide(2). The sudden shift of focus on pneumonia has raised many eyebrows and brought forward few issues that need clarifi...

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

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