Medical Correspondent BBC News

A new vaccine against pneumonia is currently deployed in Africa, estimated that could save more than half a million lives a year worldwide. HAVI Alliance, the global partnership in the health of the public and private sectors in the field of immunization, said that 19 countries will be hit first. Kenyan children started getting it and Sierra Leone, Yemen, Honduras and Guyana will follow this year. Children strattera prescription in Nicaragua also started getting the vaccine a few weeks ago. Many other countries can benefit if funding is available. Havi says it needs additional be500m ($ 800) annually over the next five years to meet the deficit in immunization for existing and new vaccines. Pneumonia vaccine protects against pneumococcal infections, the main cause of severe pneumonia in children. It also protects against a form of meningitis and blood poisoning. Pneumonia kills more children than any other disease, claiming that about 1. 7000000 of lives every year. At the heart of health Langata in Nairobi, dozens of mothers brought their children with them in the first of three injections. Beatrice Achings son Wesley died from pneumonia in November. She brought her three-month daughter Tamara to be vaccinated. She said: My sons death was very unexpected. Wesley fell ill in the morning and the evening he died in the hospital - I do not want this to happen to Tamara. Leah Otienos nine month son Emmanuel got pneumonia before Christmas, but recovered after antibiotic treatment - she says she is delighted for his defense. Charity for Children released a report, any child born to die, that emphasizes the potential lack of funding for global immunization. The report also says there is acute shortage of 3. 5000000 health workers in poor countries, without which millions of children waiting for disease and early death. Too many children die every day from predotvratimyh using vaccines against diseases and lack of basic health care, said Katherine Fittshybbon with Save the Children. Money needed for basic immunization is questionable, not to mention for this new effective vaccine against pneumonia. In June 2011 the UK government meets Havi in London to be attended by world leaders. Britain provides a quarter of all funds Gavis - more than any other country. Save the Children says it will campaign for rich countries to increase support for global immunization, and for the pharmaceutical industry to lower the price of the vaccine. Pneumococcal vaccine BE2 costs. 20 (. $ 3 50) in Africa compared to be38 in Europe as a result of an agreement between HAVI and two manufacturers: Pfizer and GSK. Implementation in developing countries is only a year after the same vaccine was introduced in the United States. GSK said the discount is only marginally above the cost of production. A spokesman said the vaccine should not less than a year to develop and is the most technically difficult of all vaccines. The second vaccine against rotavirus infection - the main cause of severe diarrhea - and be ready to be deployed. But it is also much more expensive than basic childhood vaccines against diseases like measles, whooping cough and polio. Pneumonia and diarrhea account for one third of all deaths among infants in developing countries. HAVI and children tell a comprehensive deployment of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines could potentially prevent more than one million deaths per year. .


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