Uganda Govt Steps Up Efforts to Curb Pneumonia

According to the Malaria Consortium Country Director, 40 percent of all deaths in children under five are as a result of diarrhoea, pneumonia or malaria. The Consortium called for scaling up interventions to reduce child deaths to preventable diseases like pneumonia.

A young child is immunised with the new Pneumonia vaccine.

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