Pneumonia is the world’s biggest infectious killer, claiming the lives of around 2.5 million people and also being a leading cause of death amongst children who are under five years old. Every year, World Pneumonia Day is celebrated on 12 November in order to raise awareness about the deadly disease. Pneumonia is the world’s biggest infectious killer, claiming the lives of around 2.5 million people and also being a leading cause of death amongst children who are under five years old.
In Pneumonia, a person’s lung tissue gets affected along with the air sacs of the lungs. Inflammation can also lead to water or pus in the alveoli and lung tissue, thereby causing difficulty in breathing, leading to death. Pneumonia affects people of all ages, with children and adults being more at risk. An individual can have mild to acute Pneumonia, depending on how severe the inflammation is.
Final Message for World Pneumonia Day 2021
Ninety percent of air pollution-related deaths are concentrated in 40 low- and middle-income countries. In many African countries, air pollution contributes to more than 50 percent of all pneumonia deaths. And while pneumonia deaths from household air pollution are declining in Africa, they are tragically increasing as a result of outdoor air pollution. This is also true for Asia.
The need for clean air action is clear. Reducing air pollution will deliver significant benefits to health and the environment.
This World Pneumonia Day, Every Breath Counts is calling on governments with heavy burdens of pneumonia and air pollution to commit to reducing air pollution-related pneumonia deaths by 50 percent by 2030
To end the preventable burden of pneumonia we must work together to:
- Raise awareness about pneumonia, the leading killer of young children.
- Strengthen, accelerate and sustain interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia.
- Raise awareness about pneumonia, the leading killer of young children.
- Strengthen, accelerate and sustain interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia.
- Focus on equitable access to, and delivery of, comprehensive pneumonia prevention and control programmes.
- Design strategies to reach vulnerable populations to improve their access to available interventions.
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