Francis Okoye, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria [First published in nigeriapoliticsmagazine.com ] Medical and media experts gathered recently in a webinar hosted by Citizen News Service to deliberate on how to address the world’s deadliest childhood infection: pneumonia. According to the Global coalition against childhood pneumonia (GCACP), pneumonia is the most deadly infectious illness for children under age 5 worldwide. Even though from 2000 to 2015,the annual death toll from childhood pneumonia decreased from 1.7 million deaths annually to 920,000 in 2015, approximately 2,5000 children still die from pneumonia every day. This amounts to 16 % of all child deaths. Over 90% of these deaths occur in South Asia and sub Saharan Africa. The experts who gave talks on pneumonia in children included Dr Steve Graham , Professor of International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Australia and a senior expert with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) , Audr...
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