{"id":28137,"date":"2018-11-13T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=28137"},"modified":"2018-11-13T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:10:47","slug":"world-pneumonia-day-disease-preventable-kills-16-children-under-5-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/world-pneumonia-day-disease-preventable-kills-16-children-under-5-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"World Pneumonia Day: Disease Preventable, Kills 16% Children Under 5–Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria has joined the rest of the world to mark World Pneumonia Day 2018.<\/p>\n

To mark the World Pneumonia Day, civil society organisations from Africa and Haiti are asking their governments to step-up actions to eradicate Pneumonia which is responsible for more child mortalities than any other diseases like AIDS, Malaria and Measles combined.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a conference on how to end Pneumonia in Africa, Mr. Aboubakar SYLLA, the President of ONG AGIS, said that \u201cDespite the efforts that have been made so far, much more work still needs to be done, particularly in poor communities. Every child, regardless of where they were born, need to access life-saving vaccines and medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most affected children live in poor and rural communities in many African countries. These are areas that often lack access to vaccines and other prevention and treatment tools.<\/p>\n

Today, 1 million children’s lives could be saved with more prevention and treatment interventions. Unfortunately, the vaccine against Pneumonia is the most expensive, making it\u2019s sustainability a great challenge for countries that are transitioning from GAVI\u2019s support. Also, many people are still not aware of its overwhelming death-toll, and this has led its prioritisation to be overshadowed on the global health agenda. It also gets very little attention in the media.<\/p>

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It is therefore important for African governments to allocate more finances for immunization and broaden vaccines access within their countries during routine vaccination campaigns, for the disease to be eliminated.<\/p>\n

Pneumonia can be easily prevented using vaccines and treated with medicine. There is evidence of commendable progress towards its elimination such as the drop in annual deaths from 1.7 million to an estimated 920,000 between 2000 and 2015.<\/p>\n

African governments need to honor their commitments to Immunization and shape the vaccine market to ensure sustainability for the Pneumonia vaccine.<\/p>\n

To ensure that governments stick to their commitments, the civil society organisations are amplifying their voices for (a) more financial investment for Immunisation by governments, (b) scale-up of vaccination campaigns to reach the most remote locations and (c) for more\u00a0 community sensitisation to demand for immunisation services from their leaders during this key campaign date of the 33 Days to Power Up Immunisation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria has joined the rest of the world to mark World Pneumonia Day 2018. To mark the World Pneumonia Day, civil society organisations from Africa and Haiti are asking their governments to step-up actions to eradicate Pneumonia which is responsible for more child mortalities than any other diseases like AIDS, Malaria and Measles combined. 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