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Africa: Surprising Facts about Childhood Pneumonia
Unicef, 12 November 2015
Here a few surprising facts for World Pneumonia Day (November 12). Pneumonia is still the single largest cause of death in children under five, responsible for 16 per cent of all… Read more »
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Malaria Consortium, 12 November 2015
On World Pneumonia Day, more than 50 innovators and 150 global health leaders assembled at the inaugural Pneumonia Innovations Summit to discuss the next wave of innovations with… Read more »
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Africa: Why Africa Is Lagging Behind in Child Vaccination
The Conversation Africa, 13 October 2015
Africa has made incredible improvements immunising children against preventable diseases such as polio, pneumonia, diphtheria, measles and tuberculosis. By 2014, 77% of the… Read more »
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South Africa: U.S. Vaccine Project to Boost Western Cape Economy
News24Wire, 10 November 2015
A new public private partnership between the South African government and the Biologicals and Vaccines Institute of Southern Africa (Biovac) to manufacture life-saving vaccines for… Read more »
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Nigeria: 'Apathy Toward Vaccines Damaging Primary Health Care'
Daily Trust, 6 November 2015
Nigerian Medical Association says apathy toward routine immunisation, is damaging primary health care across the country. NMA at its Physicians Week in Abuja, said preventable… Read more »
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South Africa: SA Vaccines Get a Shot in the Arm
GroundUp, 4 November 2015
The $20-million partnership between pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and South Africa's Biovac Institute was "the beginning of the establishment of vaccine manufacturing capabilities on… Read more »
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South Africa: Biovac to Manufacture Pneumococcal Vaccine
SAnews.gov.za, 3 November 2015
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor has officially launched a significant public-private partnership between global pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, and the Biovac Institute… Read more »
5 Surprising Facts About Childhood Pneumonia
World Pneumonia Day brings to the fore that the disease is most prevalent among the poor and marginalised, and that it can be prevented by implementing simple measures. Learn more at http://www.worldpneumoniaday.org #Innov8Pneumo
An eight-month-old boy with pneumonia is examined by a doctor at Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
