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News items on 'Childhood Pneumonia'
Aid group in child mortality plea
(BBC 05/10/2009)
Dramatically reducing global child mortality would cost much less than people around the world think, an international aid agency says. Launching its biggest-ever campaign, Save the Children said $40bn (£25bn) would radically lower the number of children who die of treatable diseases. It said about nine million children aged under five died each year. Illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrhoea or the lack of a trained midwife were often the cause, Save the Children said.
Tycoon helps pneumonia research
(BBC 07/04/2009)
Billionaire computer tycoon Bill Gates has given more than £1m to Scottish scientists to help tackle the world's biggest childhood killer. Edinburgh University experts were given the funding by the world's richest man in a bid to tackle childhood pneumonia. The condition causes two million deaths in under-fives each year. Edinburgh University said it was "delighted" to work with the Gates Foundation to help "prioritise" the most effective treatment.
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