PneumoADIP in the News

The latest media coverage profiling PneumoADIP spokespeople and issues in the media. PneumoADIP collaborates closely with our partners to ensure relevant news and issues are making a media impression.

Health Threat to Children May Be Underestimated

July 13, 2008 (South China Morning Post)

The incidence of pneumococcal diseases - caused by bacterial infections that can maim and kill under-fives...
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A Shot at Life in Africa

June 22, 2008 (Sydney Herald)

As children in Africa die from meningitis and pneumonia, a doctor races to deliver a vaccine...
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Kenya’s Leadership Sets an Example

June 16, 2008 (Daily Nation) Kenya --

KENYA MAKES DECISION TO INCLUDE PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES in Kepi programme with implementation beginning in the near future...
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Doctors Across Asia Unite to Prevent Disease

June 13, 2008 (Antara) Indonesia --

DOCTORS ACROSS ASIA UNITE TO PREVENT DISEASE. ASAP calls on Indonesian Government to Urgently include PCV on national immunization schedule...
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New Studies Reveal Burden of Pneumococcal Disease is High Among Indonesian Children Younger than Five

June 10, 2008 (Antara) Indonesia --

BURDEN OF PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE HIGH AMONG Indonesian children younger than five. New studies presented at ISPPD...
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Burning Questions: Fighting a Silent Killer – Pneumonia

April 10, 2008 (Star-Ledger) USA --

INTERVIEW WITH ORIN LEVINE, HEAD OF PneumoADIP on crusade to stop the biggest killer of the world’s children...
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Top Indian Paediatrician Body to Lobby for Pneumonia Vaccine

April 10, 2008 (News Post) India --

INDIAN ACADEMY OF PAEDIATRICS TO LOBBY health ministry to introduce the vaccine...
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Pneumococcal Disease Rates Down Significantly Post-Vaccine

March 10, 2008 (Science Daily) --

CDC REPORTS SIGNIFICANT DROP in invasive pneumococcal disease...
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Pneumococcal Jab Saves Children's Lives

January 8, 2008 (Health Republic) --

UK DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH called for more children to be given the pneumococcal vaccine...
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Investing in Vaccines, Children and the Future: Pneumococcal Prevention in Asia-Pacific

Dec 19, 2007 (Heart to Heart, Arirang) --

ACCORDING TO WHO, UP TO 1 MILLION CHILDREN DIE EACH YEAR OF PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE… Dr. Orin Levine, Executive Director of GAVI's PneumoADIP, visits Korea for "The First Symposium on Pneumococcal Vaccination in the Asia-Pacific Regions”...
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Dr Orin Levine interviewed on pneumococcal disease for Al Jazeera’s “The Pulse”, English language service

Dec 17, 2007 (The Pulse, Al Jazeera) --

NOW SOME DISEASES ARE JUST BULLIES, they prey on the weak and vulnerable, and pneumonia is one of the worst it kills more than 2 million kids a year...
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Dr Orin Levine announces pneumococcal vaccination introduction in developing countries and discusses pneumococcal disease and vaccination in the BBC Radio Four programme "Health Check"

Dec 3, 2007 (BBC World Service: Health Check) --

SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD A CHILD DIES FROM PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE, often from meningitis or pneumonia, every single minute...

Dr Sandra Bliss talks to the BBC World Service radio “Focus on Africa” programme about pneumococcal disease in HIV positive children and the role of the PCV vaccine

Nov 28, 2007 (Network Africa, BBC World Service) --

THOUSANDS, MAYBE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ACROSS AFRICA who are living with HIV/AIDS could be prevented from getting life-threatening infections by a relatively simple vaccine...

Vaccines for South Asia and the world

Sept 21, 2007 (The Hindu) --

VACCINATION RATES AMONG CHILDREN HAVE RISEN DRAMATICALLY but it is important to continue the efforts...
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Meeting to highlight burden of meningitis and pneumonia

Apr 1, 2007 (The Daily Star) Bangladesh --

HIB AND PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE--two major causes of life-threatening meningitis and pneumonia in South Asian children...
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New fund to subsidise pneumonia, meningitis vaccines

Feb 12, 2007 (New Age) Bangladesh --

THE GOVERNMENTS OF FIVE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, along with the US charity Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Friday committed $1.5 billion to provide low-cost vaccines for some of the world’s poorest nations...
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Bid to create market for vaccines

Feb 9, 2007 (BBC News, Health) --

THE UK AND OTHER LEADING INDUSTRIALISED NATIONS ARE SETTING UP A £750M ($1.5BN) FUND to speed up the development of new vaccines for use in poorer countries...
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Bid to Create Market for Vaccines

Feb 9, 2007 (BBC World Service Radio) --

NOW A MAJOR INITIATIVE IS BEING LAUNCHED TODAY aimed at raising billions of dollars to fight treatable diseases in the developing world...

Eliminating Childhood Killers

Jan 26, 2007 (The Nation/All Africa Global Media) Nairobi --

THIS WEEK IN ADDIS ABABA, African leaders will explore how scientific innovations can improve the lives of people across the continent
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Vaccines For The Vulnerable Around The World

Jan 3, 2007 (The Baltimore Sun) Baltimore --

IT'S FLU SEASON, AND MANY AMERICANS HAVE BEEN TO THE DOCTOR OR SCHOOL CLINIC FOR A FLU SHOT. These shots protect us - especially the most vulnerable, our children and the elderly - from the season's harshest bugs and prevent a simple infection from turning into something much worse. In the world's poorest countries, the picture is much different...
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