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Addressing pneumonia: The deadly childhood illness

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Talking about India, Lois said that even as the country ranks 1st globally in terms of pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths, there has been some political commitment from the government to immunize all children within the next 5 years and also to increase efforts for monitoring of data and progress. However, many challenges remain to be overcome. There is still very low coverage of Hib vaccine, particularly in high burden states, as well as low levels of access to appropriate treatments.

For sustainable development in the post 2015 era, governments, communities and families will have to make all out efforts to protect our future generation from a disease that is curable as well as preventable.

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

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