India continues to have the largest pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease burden in the world, according to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States. It also points out that many Indian children do not have access to life saving treatment and prevention measures.
India loses around 400,000 children to these preventable diseases before they turn five, the latest report has revealed. In its Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report 2013, published by the International Vaccine Access Centre, the organisation has reported that India topped the list of countries with the most child deaths.
Although India has made some progress in the coverage of pneumonia interventions since the previous year’s report and is poised to protect more children from both diseases with the forthcoming national scale-up of pentavalent vaccine and the promise of an indigenous rotavirus vaccine, the current report has noted that the coverage remains below targeted levels.
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