Impatient Optimists
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Recent scientific advances have created enormous opportunities to reduce the impact of pneumonia - the leading cause of child deaths in the developing world. There are now proven vaccines available to protect against the major causes of pneumonia, and progress is being made in introducing them through GAVI. However, more innovation and resources are needed to prevent and treat childhood pneumonia.

Learn more below and visit the program page for more details about our work in this area.

Mind the GAPPD—A pivotal new resource offers global and local strategies to overcome leading child killers

April 12, 2013 / Steve Davis

Today’s launch of the GAPPD with its complementary resources is a reminder of the crucial value of collaboration and integrated efforts: Global and local officials must work together. Stakeholders such as civil society and the private sector must work together. Governments must engage health workers who must in turn work with their communities, so that diarrhea and pneumonia can be overcome… together.

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Tackling the Two Biggest Killers of Kids: Pneumonia and Diarrhea

April 12, 2013 / John Grove, Gretchen Meller

Most people are surprised by the fact that the two biggest killers of children between 1 month and five years are pneumonia and diarrhea. Today in London and Washington D.C. two important reports are being released that link these two illnesses with key policy recommendations on ending child mortality, recognizing that prevention and control of these disease cannot be adequately addressed without integrated programs.

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World Pneumonia Day’s Humble Beginnings

November 12, 2012 / Orin Levine

Let’s Sideline Pneumonia

November 10, 2012 / Russell Wilson

Most people in this country don’t know that pneumonia takes the life of a child every 20 seconds.

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One Way to Save Millions of Lives from Pneumonia

November 10, 2012 / David Marsh

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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