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Pneumonia: a global cause without champions [1]

['Kevin Watkins', 'K.Watkins Savethechildren.Org.Uk', 'Save The Children Uk', 'London', 'Devi Sridhar', 'Global Health Governance Programme', 'Usher Institute For Population Health Sciences', 'Informatics', 'University Of Edinburgh', 'Edinburgh']

Date: 2022-11 

1 Nair H

Simões EA

Rudan I

et al. Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis.

2 UNICEF

One is too many: ending child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea.

3 Save the Children

Fighting for breath: a call to action on childhood pneumonia.

Every 2 min three children will die from pneumonia, the leading infectious cause of child mortality globally, killing more children than diarrhoea and malaria combined.In 2016, the disease killed an estimated 880 000 children.Most were younger than 2 years old. Almost all pneumonia deaths could be prevented through vaccination or early diagnosis and treatment with antibiotics costing less than US$0·50. Yet childhood pneumonia deaths are falling far more slowly than other major killers. On current trends, there will be 735 000 pneumonia deaths in 2030—the target date for achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 target 3.2 of ”ending preventable child deaths”.

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[1] Url: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31666-0/fulltext

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