…a child dies of pneumonia, a disease that can be treated with antibiotics that cost less than a dollar.

As a five time survivor of the disease I know how lucky I am to have been born in a country were medicines and care were readily available. The children living in any of the 68 countries around the world with high child mortality rates are not so lucky. This is why the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia has made today, November 2, 2009, World Pneumonia Day, a day to raise awareness about a disease that has been effectively treated for over a decade yet still kills four million people around the world each year just because they cannot afford or locate vaccines and medicines for prevention and treatment. It’s ridiculous. Let’s try and save some little lungs today and everyday.

This is what happy lungs look like holding a vaccination card! Word.

www.worldpneumoniaday.org