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Leith Greenslade
New York, NY
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Leith commented on the article |Great article Andrew. The cost of not introducing these vaccines will be paid in children's lives - 7 million kids (according to Gates Foundation estimates) over the next decade will die because the world has failed to introduce vaccines for pneumonia and diarrhea in the developing world. Do we find the $4 billion needed to help pay for this, or do we accept 7 million child deaths that we know how to prevent? There is no other health intervention currently available that can save children's lives on the scale of the pneumonia and diarrhea vaccines. It's the biggest no-brainer in global health.
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Leith commented on the article |Until Bill and Melinda Gates starting talking about it nobody seemed to know that the leading killers of children - pneumonia and diarrhea - were largely vaccine-preventable. That means that if we get the vaccines that our kids routinely get to the world's poorest children child mortality could be significantly cut, pain and suffering for millions of families lessened and a massive burden taken off the health systems of developing countries.
The new $10 billion commitment over the next decade gives the world an unprecedented opportunity to do just that - to take a giant leap forward in reducing child mortality and to dramatically increase the numbers of kids who make it to their 5th birthdays.
So let's all get with the program. The next decade is not just the 'decade of vaccines' - it is the decade for improving child health and winning the battle against the leading child killers.
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Leith commented on the article |Wear blue jeans for World Pneumonia Day http://best-shot.org/act/blue-jeans-day/
Better still, reach into one of your pockets, pull out $20 and gift it to the GAVI Alliance to buy vaccines that will protect 1 child from the 2 deadliest strains of pneumonia for life. http://everychild.gavialliance.org
It will be the best $20 you spend in November!
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Leith commented on the article |It's important to keep these issues in perspective. 400,000 Indian children die every year from pneumonia, much of which is now preventable with vaccines and treatable with cheap antibiotics. But unlike children in developed countries, Indian children don't get them. This is one of the biggest scandals in global health. Why don't we pay it more attention?
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Leith commented on the article |Alanna - none of the above! Stick to the knitting, as they say. 500,000 women die in child birth every year and 3.4 million babies do not survive the first month of life. If a baby survives the first month of life, making it to 5 years will largely depend on avoiding 2 diseases - pneumonia and diarrhea. These 2, combined with deaths in the first month of life, account for 74% of all deaths of children under 5. Do we need a Global Fund for Maternal Health, Pneumonia and Diarrhea to finally see some action? Keep blogging on the issues that will save the most lives!
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