Imagine half the kindergarteners in the US dying from diseases we could prevent. Horrendous. Catastrophic. Over 1.5 million deaths would be unimaginable. Yet this is about how many kids die every year around the world from measles, polio, pneumonia and diarrhea, disease we can largely prevent by vaccines and for …
Unfortunately we still need a World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia still kills more kids around the world than any other illness or disease. Credit: World Moms Blog Every year about 1.4 million kids under 5 die from pneumonia around the world. World Health Organization Doubly tragic because it doesn’t have to be so …
2013 Shot at Life Advocates storming the Capitol (United Nations Foundation). This week I had the privilege to attend the second annual Shot at Life Summit hosted by the United Nations Foundation in D.C. As some of you know, Shot at Life, a campaign devoted to improving children’s access to vaccines in the …
Name the single biggest killer of kids around the world. It’s probably not what you’re guessing…Malaria kills @100,000 people of all ages each year (2010 data). Tuberculosis kills @1.1 million people of all ages each year (2010 data). AIDS kills @1.8 million people of all ages each year (2009 data).Give …
Shot@Life’s Peg Willingham, right, visiting a clinic in Honduras Spent the first part of the week at the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life Summit in Washington, D.C. The children’s health event drew together women and a few men from social media, education, medicine and other organizations. The cause? Promoting access to life-saving vaccines in developing countries, vaccines for that the price of two large pizzas …