President mwai kibaki joined parents, health ...

Hundreds of children in Kenya have received their first shots against pneumococcal infection is present at a special United Nations, supported the celebrations marking the global deployment of vaccines targeting the main cause of global infant mortality - pneumonia. President Mwai Kibaki joined parents, medical staff, ambassadors and donors in Nairobi to observe children immunized as part of the official presentation of pneumococcal vaccine in the government during the regular immunization program for all children. Kenya became the first African country that has introduced the pneumococcal conjugated vaccine, which was specifically designed to meet the needs of children in developing countries. Nicaragua, Guyana, Yemen and Sierra Leone as the deployment of the vaccine by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (HAVI), which brings together Government, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO) and other key players in global health. Pneumococcal disease currently kills more than a million people each strattera online year - including over half a million children under five years. Pneumonia is the most common form of serious pneumococcal infections and is 18 percent of childhood deaths in developing countries, making it one of the two leading causes of death among young children. "Pneumococcal vaccine can help us significantly reduce the number of children who die from pneumonia, a killer disease that is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide every year," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. "By combining the power of immunization with other measures as improved nutrition and sanitation, we can change - and keep -. Millions of children's lives "

HAVI Alliance is committed to support the introduction of pneumococcal vaccines in 19 developing countries in a year, and if it receives adequate funding from donors, plans to deploy them in more than 40 countries by 2015 . WHO Director-General Margaret Chan noted that the rapid introduction of pneumococcal vaccine shows how innovation and technology can be used, at affordable prices, to save lives in developing countries. "Money back if the judge to reduce child mortality, will be huge," said Dr Chan. HAVI need an additional $ 3. 7000000000 in the next five years to continue to support immunization in the poorest countries and introduce new and underused vaccines, including pneumococcal vaccine and rotavirus vaccine, which solves diarrhea - the second largest cause of death of children under five years . "Routine vaccination is one of the most cost-effective public investment in health, the government can do, and we expect our donors to continue their strong support for our salvation, life mission," said Helen Evans, interim executive director of the Alliance HAVI. As it was presented at the World Economic Forum in 2000, HAVI prevent more than five million future deaths and helped protect 288 000 000 children with new and underused vaccines. .