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Pneumonia takes the lives of 920,000 children annually—a life every 2 minutes, more than malaria and diarrhea combined.

November 14th, 2017

While pneumonia deaths have dropped by nearly 50% since 2000, too many kids still don’t have access to vaccines that can prevent the disease from taking hold in the first place.
Approximately 1/2 of the world’s children are still not receiving PCV (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine).

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