Almost 35,000 lives could be saved by an Indian government vaccination drive targeting one of the country’s biggest killers of children under five: pneumonia. Plans from the Centre are currently in place for a nationwide rollout of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). This plan could significantly reduce the incidence of diseases such as pneumonia, which current estimates …
Pneumonia, a disease that is, for the most part, preventable through vaccination, kills a child aged under five every two minutes in India claim doctors from the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Around 3.6 million episodes of the disease occurred in children under five over the course of a year in India. This was revealed during …
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India currently holds the highest burden of child deaths due to pneumonia in the world. Pneumonia kills more children under five years old in India than any other disease. This accounts for 20 percent of child mortalities globally. In India, this amounts to around 944,000 child deaths a year (based on data from 2015). The …
Every year, 5.9 million children die before reaching the age of five. Of these, 1.5 million lose their lives to pneumonia and diarrhoea. As shown in a revealing new report, India has more of these deaths than any other country. On November 11, the 2016 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report was published by the International …
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