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David Stanley Ford

$39B sought for pneumonia fight

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Published: November 2, 2009

LONDON — To fight pneumonia, the world’s top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion over the next six years.

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On the first World Pneumonia Day today, the World Health Organization and UNICEF are releasing a global plan to save more than 5 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015.

The plea for money is less than what has been spent on more high-profile diseases like AIDS, despite the fact pneumonia kills more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

"This is very simply the biggest killer people never hear about,” said Orin Levine, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, who has advised WHO and UNICEF. Pneumonia accounts for about 20 percent of all child deaths every year; AIDS causes about 2 percent.

The U.N. is promoting a variety of strategies from vaccination to generalized interventions that address economic development. Pneumonia deaths are strongly linked to malnutrition and poverty.

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If it comes out of London its gotta be euginic in nature. Do NOT trust anything that comes from the europeans, yes those bastards are evil and if we were smart we would get the hell away from the queen and monarchy. Those people are sick and are still sore about us getting the hell away from them and kicking their ass in OUR revolutionary war. Stay away from anything out of europe they are evil doers.
Terry, Norman - Nov 2, 2009 at 10:49 pm

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