Diseases like Diarrhoea and Pneumonia, which are together the leading causes of death among children worldwide, can be prevented and controlled effectively by 2025, a study says.
A new Lancet Series on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, from a consortium of academics and public health professionals led by Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta of Aga Khan University in Pakistan, provides the evidence for integrated global action on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia.
The series includes the interventions which can effectively treat and prevent them, and the financial cost of ending preventable deaths from childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia by 2025.
The Series is published to coincide with the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD), a UNICEF and WHO publication which provides a guide for governments and their partners to plan integrated approaches for the prevention and control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea.
In collaboration with Aga Khan University at a special event at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Series was launched here this weekend.
Both the diseases have caused around two million deaths of children under five across the globe in 2011.
