World Pneumonia Day

Malaria Consortium is convening World Pneumonia Day this year on 12 November. Together with our partners, we have chosen to focus World Pneumonia Day 2014 around the need for increased access to prevention and care for pneumonia, which is key to defeat the disease.

On the Sixth Annual World Pneumonia Day, we will call for an urgent end to the number of preventable child deaths by 2030.

Malaria Consortium Cambodia is holding a solidarity dinner joined by local health officials, CARE, Plan international, Krousar Yeung, HPA, ICC and NGOs Network representative to discuss the Pneumonia Diagnostics Project, its progress and the role of community health workers and front line health facility workers on pneumonia.

Here are some of Malaria Consortium's events going on around the world:

Malaria Consortium Ethiopia is hosting a panel discussion where government representatives, nongovernmental organizations and other partners working on child health, including national and local health officials, WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, IFHP and L10K, will discuss achievements in ICCM programs in Ethiopia, challenges and the way forward on pneumonia diagnosis and treatment.

Malaria Consortium South Sudan has organised various events in the week before World Pneumonia Day, Q&A sessions on the radio, broadcasting key messages on pneumonia, a TV show and a media briefing on Malaria Consortium’s work in ICCM plus (integration with community nutrition screening). Today, a parade hits the streets of its capital Juba. After the parade partners in child health, such as the ministry of health, local and national health officials, PSI, Jhpiego the Maternal and Child Survival, Save the Children, IRC, BRAC, WHO and UNICEF will hold a workshop on the challenges at stake in the fight against pneumonia. In Northern Bahr El Ghazal where Malaria Consortium runs iCCM and Pneumonia Diagnostics projects, the State Minister of Health will be addressing a public gathering while Malaria Consortium will make a speech on behalf of Partners in the same occasion at the Aweil State Referral Hospital. 

Malaria Consortium’s Nigerian office is organising an event in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID Targeted States High Impact and Clinton Health Access Initiative to raise awareness on pneumonia. The activities include a ministerial press briefing, a presentation on Community Health Workers’ contribution to the control of pneumonia and other childhood illnesses, and twin roundtables for both World Pneumonia Day and World Prematurity Day.