“We believe change can happen when we join hands as a community to combat the poor health of children in our communities,” says Medius Kyarikunda, a health worker in Kicuzi sub-county.

In Uganda, pneumonia kills up to 24,000 children every year before their fifth birthday. But now thousands of children’s lives will be saved by the recent introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV).

Laura is very clear about the importance of birth registration – “para ir a escola”, she says loudly. So they can go to school. Birth registration is also an essential requirement to access basic social services, such as education and social protection.

The Government of Malawi has developed a new treatment strategy, Option B+, to prevent the next generation of children born to HIV-positive mothers from being infected.