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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.

Severe pneumonia leaves 4.2 million children desperate for oxygen each year

Pneumonia vaccine in a Health Center in Mali, March 2018.

Childhood pneumonia: Everything you need to know

Pneumonia kills more children than any other infectious disease

baby with pneumonia

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.

Every child’s right to survive

A 2020 agenda to end pneumonia deaths

UNICEF/UNI279453/Modola

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

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at Fighting for Breath: The Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

Baby in Nigeria

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

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

One child dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds, agencies warn

Pneumonia – a preventable disease – kills more children than any other infection

Mongolia: Two ballet dancers wearing masks strike a pose with factory chimneys behind them.

Mongolia: Fighting air pollution with ballet

Discover how modern ballet can raise awareness and trigger action