Fighting Pneumonia: An Agenda for Action

Register to the Webinar here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BDPXFJ4_Tgy6H-tF_4SaYw

Pneumonia is the leading infectious disease killer in the world, claiming the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people in 2019, including 672,000 children under five and 1.2 million adults over 70 years, according to the Global Burden of Disease.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the burden of respiratory infection deaths to more than 6 million in 2021.

Urgent action is needed to both reduce the massive burden of sickness and death from pneumonia and reduce the risk that future respiratory pandemics will kill millions more.

For World Pneumonia Day, the Fondation Mérieux and Every Breath Counts Coalition are joining forces to host a critical conversation on what governments and international agencies must do to reduce pneumonia deaths and the risk of future respiratory pandemics – for more information on this event please check our website at:

 https://www.fondation-merieux.org/en/events/fighting-pneumonia-an-agenda-for-action/

 The webinar will also showcase video footage from the winners of the Small Grants Awards for the World Pneumonia Week of Action from 7 to 12 November 2022