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Pneumonia

On 16 January 2020, a health worker examines one-year-old Beatrice in a health clinic in Yola, Adamawa state, northeastern Nigeria.
Article
10 November 2023
Childhood pneumonia: Everything you need to know
Pneumonia kills more children than any other infectious disease
Document
15 June 2022
Scaling Oxygen Access for Newborns and Children

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Bangladesh case study (PDF, 3 MB)
Liberia case study (PDF, 4 MB)
Kenya case study (PDF, 3 MB)
Nepal case study (PDF, 4 MB)
A newborn baby girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana'a Governorate. More than four years of armed conflict in Yemen have served to worsen the situation of women and children at birth within a country that was already the poorest in the Middle East and one of the world’s most impoverished even before the war escalated early in 2015.
Press release
12 November 2020
Severe pneumonia leaves 4.2 million children desperate for oxygen each year
baby with pneumonia
Press release
16 June 2020
Pneumonia vaccine price drops dramatically for lower-income countries thanks to the Gavi pneumococcal Advance Market Commitment
New supply agreement between UNICEF and Serum Institute of India (SII) makes pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) available at US$2.00 per dose, a 43 per cent reduction from the Gavi price at the start of the Advance Market Commitment
Sumaiya developed a high fever on the 16th day of her birth, and she was taken to Patukhali Sadar Hospital the next day in Bangladesh. She returned home after 8 days of treatment in the hospital.
Report
30 January 2020
Every child’s right to survive
A 2020 agenda to end pneumonia deaths

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UNICEF/UNI279453/Modola
Photo essay
30 January 2020
Sounding the alarm about a forgotten epidemic in Nigeria
Worldwide, pneumonia claims the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five
baby with pneumonia
Statement
29 January 2020
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at Fighting for Breath: The Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia
As Delivered
Baby in Nigeria
Press release
28 January 2020
9 million children could die in a decade unless world acts on pneumonia, leading agencies warn
Malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and antibiotics among the drivers of preventable deaths from pneumonia—which last year killed a child every 39 seconds
Child being treated for pneumonia
Media advisory
13 January 2020
Countries gather for the Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia
World’s first conference on childhood pneumonia to take place in Barcelona from January 29-31
Omid from Afghanistan
Press release
11 November 2019
One child dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds, agencies warn
Pneumonia – a preventable disease – kills more children than any other infection