(BBC World Service: Health Check) -- Somewhere in the world a child dies from pneumococcal disease, often from meningitis or pneumonia, every single minute...
(The Hindu) -- Vaccines for South Asia and the world. Vaccination rates among children have risen dramatically but it is important to continue the efforts...
(The Daily Star) Bangladesh -- Meeting to highlight burden of meningitis and pneumonia. Hib and pneumococcal disease, two major causes of life-threatening meningitis and pneumonia...
(New Age) Bangladesh --
New fund to subsidise pneumonia, meningitis vaccines. Five governments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation commit $1.5bn for low-cost vaccines...
(BBC News, Health) --
Bid to create market for vaccines: UK and other leading industrialised nations are setting up a $1.5bn fund to speed up development of new vaccines...
(The Nation/All Africa Global Media) Nairobi -- Eliminating Childhood Killers: African leaders explore how scientific innovations can improve the lives of people across the continent...
The Pneumococcal vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan is based
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is funded by GAVI Alliance.