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Briefing on new Global Child Mortality Data and Local Progress

On July 21, GAVI Alliance and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health hosted an advocacy event on global child mortality and local progress in Baltimore. Peter Beilenson, MD, MPH, Health Officer...

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Pneumonia’s Last Syrah

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Sudan National TV Interview & World Pneumonia Day

One of the winners of the Grant Award for World Pneumonia Day 2010 will appear on Sudan National TV to speak about the importance of Pneumonia and celebration of World Pneumonia Day!

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Pneumonia's Last Syrah - San Francisco

On November 9, 2010, the Rhone Rangers & GAVI Campaign will be hosting Pneumonia's Last Syrah in the Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco, California.

20 Rhone Rangers wineries will be pouring American Syrahs, and they and many other wineries will be donating $10 for each case of Syrah sold in the...

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High Level Press Conference on Pneumonia Prevention - Accra, Ghana

The Paediatric Society of Ghana will hold a press conference on Nov. 10 to raise awareness of the importance of urgently developing effective prevention and treatment measures to fight pneumonia. The press event will be hosted by speakers from the Paediatric Society...

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Take on The Scrappy Tree's Blue Challenge!!!

On World Pneumonia Day, November 12, 2010, the Scrappy Tree will be joining the effort in fighting pneumonia, the leading killer in young children in the developing world! The Scrappy Tree wants to do their part and that's where you come in! You can donate directly or...

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Televised Debate on Pneumonia Prevention Strategies - Cotonou, Benin

The Societe Beninoise de Pediatrie (Benin Pediatric Society) is organizing a televised discussion on pneumonia prevention strategies in advance of World Pneumonia Day. The TV program, which will also be carried on radio throughout the country, will include representatives from the Ministry of Health and leading pediatricians in Benin. In...

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World Pneumonia Day - India

"The Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) has launched a nationwide campaign 'Blow Away Pneumonia' to mark World Pneumonia Day on Friday.

The drive which is supported by medical fraternity, parents, schools and local communities across India aims to create awareness about pneumonia, which is one of the leading cause...

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World Pneumonia Day - Seoul, South Korea

This year, South Korea is celebrating its first World Pneumonia Day in a central commercial area of Seoul, Myeong Dong.

The morning session starts off with a photo session for World Pneumonia Day to provide an opportunity for media camera crews to capture the event for their publications.

Also, attending the photo...

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World Pneumonia Day 2010 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh celebrated World Pneumonia Day this year by arranging several events to raise awareness and increase the public's education regarding child pneumonia!

The Bangladesh Paediatric Association (BPA), along with Save the Children and five other child-related associations have arranged a Media Dialogue, 2010, at...

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World Pneumonia Day - Geneva, Switzerland

The City of Geneva marked World Pneumonia Day Friday by turning its iconic 140-metre high fountain, the “Jet d’Eau”, blue, the official color of the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia.

Geneva is joining cities and towns around the world in marking the second World Pneumonia Day, organised to highlight the...

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World Pneumonia Day Coloring Book Contest

Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health hosted a pneumonia awareness coloring book contest as part of a week’s worth of activities around the School. Entrants were encouraged to develop a coloring book that would teach children and their parents about pneumonia and how to...

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World Pneumonia Day 2010 - Democratic Republic of Congo

On World Pneumonia Day 2010, the Democratic Republic of Congo held scientific workshops on Pneumonia. the Centre for Health Education and Support (CEFA) partnered with the Centre Hospitalier Monkole to organize a scientific workshop titled "Combattre la pneumonie, c'est sauver l'enfant." The workshop brought together leading pediatricians from around...

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World Pneumonia Day 2010 - Ghana

On World Pneumonia Day 2010, November 12, there was a press conference and information session as well as an outreach to health workers held in Ghana to comemmorate this day.

The Paediatric Society of Ghana organized a press conference and information session on November 10, which was attended by...

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World Pneumonia Day 2010 - Nepal

On World Pneumonia Day 2010, the Nepal Paediatric Society organized activities to raise awareness and promote education concerning pneumonia and ways to prevent and treat pneumonia.

On November 11, the Nepal Paediatric Society partnered with Save the Children and the Safe Motherhood Network Federation to organize...

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World Pneumonia Day 2010 - Sudan

On World Pneumonia Day 2010, the Sudanese Association of Paediatrics organized a public march to Parliament as well as media outreach to raise awareness and promote education about pneumonia and how to prevent and treat the disease.

The Sudanese Association of Paediatrics organized a public rally to march...

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Pneumonia Grams

Post-card sized letters and online communications to country leaders calling for their leadership in the fight against pneumonia will be widely available for circulation. Childhood diseases often don’t get the attention they deserve and this is one way to ensure the world leaders understand it is important to their constituencies....

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The Faces of Pneumonia with Cokie Roberts

On World Pneumonia Day, November 12, 2010, Cokie Roberts will help moderate a conversation on The Faces of Pneumonia between 10:00 am until 11:00 am. The event will take place at The Barbara Jordan Conference Center at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Please make plans today to take part...

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Georgetown Cupcake for World Pneumonia Day - Washington D.C.

Georgetown Cupcakes is donating vanilla cupcakes with blue frosting to the World Pneumonia Day speaking event at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. They are also selling blue cupcakes in their store on Friday, November 12th, in support of WPD.

Stop by Georgetown Cupcakes on World Pneumonia Day and, instead of...

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National Press Club Seminar on Pneumonia - Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Paediatric Association will host a seminar on how to improve pneumonia prevention activities in Bangladesh. The event will bring together physicians, policymakers, journalists, and civil society groups at the National Press Club in the capital, Dhaka. In addition to discussing ways to improve access to prevention and treatment,...

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Haitian Pediatric Society on World Pneumonia Day

The Haitian Pediatric Society has planned numerous events for World Pneumonia Day. These events were aimed at informing the Haitian community about the impact of pneumonia in children and the needs to access care immediately any time a child is coughing with fever and dyspnea.

Some of these activities include engaging...

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Pneumococcal Disease Burden Research Forum - The Philippines

On November 12, 23 institutions, the Department of Health, and the Department of Science and Technology will be holding a research forum at the Philippine Women's University from 1 pm to 5 pm.

The topic of Pneumonia Results of Pneumococcal Disease Burden in Philippines will be presented.

They used materials such as posters...

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Pneumonia Fighters!

On November 12th , a team of PneumoniaFighters!, dressed in blue ‘superhero-style’ costumes, will take to the streets of Washington, DC and appear at strategic locations around the city handing out PneumoniaGrams addressed to the President of the United States. DC area residents, tourists, and families representing various constituencies throughout...

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Cross River State, NIGERIA marks World Pneumonia Day 2010!

The Governor of Cross River State Senator, Liyel Imoke, has encouraged the medical practitioners to be current in their diagnoses on pneumonia so as to be conversant with its treatment options, to enable the State remain committed in the fight against all child’s killer diseases.

He stated this while declaring open...

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Stop the Smoke, Save a Child - Cross River state, Nigeria

The organization So-Healthi, led by RoseMary Archibong, organized an event for World Pneumonia Day 2010 in Cross River state, Nigeria.

Advocates in Cross River state, Nigeria draw attention to the health hazards of air pollution caused by marketplace generators - a risk factor for pneumonia. They highlighted this risk, especially for...

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Embark on Media Campaign - Lagos, Nigeria

The Pediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN), led by Dorothy Esangbedo, spearheaded World Pneumonia Day 2010 in Lagos, Nigeria.

They hosted a media campaign in Lagos State, Nigeria that...

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Action against Pneumonia in Oyo State, Nigeria

Leading up to World Pneumonia Day 2010, Dr. A.G. Falade in Oyo State, Nigeria organized numerous activities and events to promote and increase awareness of pneumonia among the citizenry.

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Wear Blue Jeans

Join us in the fight against pneumonia by wearing blue jeans on World Pneumonia Day on November 12. More than 1,000 people have already marked that...

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World Pneumonia Day - Ethiopia

To celebrate World Pneumonia Day 2010, a half day workshop was held in Ethiopia focusing on raising awareness on pneumococcal vaccines & Rota vaccines with health officials, pediatricians, other health professionals and the media. A total of 121 people participated!!

Members of the Ethiopian Pediatrics Executive Committee also participated in a...

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World Pneumonia Day - Argentina

For World Pneumonia Day 2010, a Pneumonia Day Event was held at Palermo Park ("Bosques de Palermo") in Buenos aires, Argentina! The goal of the event was to raise awareness about the importance of the fight against pneumonia.

Over ten different activities were happening at this event, including a stand with...

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World Pneumonia Day 2010 - UK Event

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia is holding the UK event for World Pneumonia Day 2010 at the Houses of Parliament on November 16th.

Building on the successful inaugural event last year the APPG has invited Stephen O'Brien MP, Minister for International Development, Helen Evans,...

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Prevention of Child Killers: Pneumonia and Diarrhea - Amman, Jordan

On November 22, 2010, key health advocates from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq will meet for a symposium to address the burden of pneumococcal and diarrheal diseases across the Eastern Mediterranean region.

The symposium will convene select Ministry of Health staff from participating countries, Technical Advisory Group (TAG) members, Expanded...

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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011

The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters is perhaps best known to the world at large simply as "Davos." It is much more than a simple get-together of global leaders from many fields in a Swiss ski resort, however. The Annual Meeting provides a rethinking...

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Egyptian Pediatric Association Annual Congress

The Egyptian Pediatric Association (EPA) Annual Congress in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will be held in Ras Sudr, Egypt from February 2, 2011 to February 4, 2011.

The main congress topics will include:

Advocacy
Cardiac and Respiratory Disorders
Children's Health and...
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1st Global Congress for Consensus in Pediatrics & Child Health

The 1st Global Congress for Consensus in Pediatrics & Child Health will take place in Paris from17th to 20th of February 2011.

CIP Congress will bring a Global academic debate platform searching for consensus and agreements on main child health pathologies, difficulties and controversies. The Scientific Committee have formed an innovative and stimulating...

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International Women's Day

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day this year on March 8th! The theme is "Equal access to education, training, and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women"!

"Annually on March 8, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievement. A global...

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World Day for Water

Celebrate World Water Day on March 22, 2011 and help make a difference!

The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

This year's theme will be Water for Cities: Responding to the...

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World TB Day

Each year, World TB Day is celebrated on March 24! World TB Day is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the death of several million people each year, mostly in developing countries.

March 24th commemorates the day in 1882 when...

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World Health Day

We live in an era of medical breakthroughs with new "wonder drugs" available to treat conditions that a few decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS, would have proved fatal. For World Health Day 2011, WHO will launch a worldwide campaign...

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World Vaccine Congress 2011

As industry continues to re-address the scientific and strategic boundaries of vaccine development, the implications for how these pioneering advances impact domestic and international immunization and market growth are profound.

In 2010 over 485+ delegates came to the 10th annual World Vaccine Congress Washington! In 2011 you will have the opportunity...

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Earth Day 2011: A Billion Acts of Green

"In recognition of the power of millions of individual actions, Earth Day 2011 will be organized around A Billion Acts of Green®: Personal, organizational and corporate pledges to live and act sustainably. At over 45 million actions to date, A Billion Acts of Green® campaign – the largest environmental service...

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World Meningitis Day

April 24, 2011 is World Meningitis Day. This day seeks to raise awareness about meningitis and the importance of being vaccinated. World Meningitis Day is organized by The Confederation of Meningitis Organizations (CoMO), which was formed in 2004 and whose members include organizations and individuals in 19 countries across...

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World Malaria Day

Approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, particularly those living in lower-income countries. It infects more than 500 million people per year and kills more than 1 million. The burden of malaria is heaviest in sub-Saharan Africa but the disease also afflicts...

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Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

The Sixty-fourth session of the World Health Assembly will take place in Geneva during 16–24 May 2011.

The Health Assembly will discuss a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board as well as the programme budget, administration and management matters of WHO.

Specific topics that will be...

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ONE’s 2011 DATA Report briefing

ONE's 2011 Data Report briefing will be held on Thursday, May 19th from 3:30-4:30 pm EST. In case you want to check it out in advance, the full report, key findings, country-by-country analysis and interactive data can all be found at: http://www.one.org/data/.

If you haven't already, please RSVP...

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G8 Summit

This year, the G8 Summit will be held on May 26 in Deauville, France!

G8 members include France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. Composed of six members at its creation in 1975, and seven with Canada in 1976, the group became the G8 with...

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International Day of Action on Women's Health

In 1987, during a reunion of members of Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), 28 May was declared as International Day of Action for Women's Health. In 1999, it was officially recognised by the government of South Africa. Recognised by the basic principle that women have...

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World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day 2011 works to collect tools to help individuals to quit tobacco usage. This year, World No Tobacco Day will be held on May 31, 2011!

"Make World No Tobacco Day 2011 be the day when you discovered the most empowering tool of all, toward permanently arresting your...

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World Environment Day

World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED activities take place all year round but climax on June 5 each year, involving people from all over the globe.

This year, India will be...

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Day of the African Child

The International Day of the African Child has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity. It honours those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day. It also raises awareness of the continuing need...

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World Refugee Day

Every year on June 20 the world honors the courage, resilience and strength of refugees. On the anniversary of the United Nations designated World Refugee Day, thousands of organizations in hundreds of countries will come together to focus global attention not only on the plight of refugees and the causes...

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World Hepatitis Day

This year will be the first official WHO World Hepatitis Day on July 28, 2011!
The day is marked to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis and the diseases that it causes.

Hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D and E can cause acute and chronic infection and inflammation of the...

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World Breastfeeding Week

This year, World Breastfeeding Week will be celebrated from August 1 until August 7, 2011! It is celebrated in over 170 countries worldwide every year!

The World Breastfeeding Week theme for 2011 focuses on engaging and mobilizing youth intergenerational work with the catchy slogan of: "Talk to me:...

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World Humanitarian Day

World Humanitarian Day is a celebration of people helping people. Every day humanitarian aid workers help millions of people around the world.
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Global Handwashing Day

Global Handwashing Day (GHD) was created by the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing in ...