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Business Students Tackle Childhood Pneumonia in Uganda

Posted by  on Thursday, February 20th 2014     
The winning team from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

A collaboration between USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) in the Global Health Bureau and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University led to teams of business students from around the world competing on ways to reduce child deaths from pneumonia in Uganda.

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MCHIP Plays Key Role Introducing Lifesaving Vaccine in Nine African Countries

Posted by  on Tuesday, November 12th 2013     

Today, on World Pneumonia Day, MCHIP and USAID celebrate that this disease is preventable with safe, effective and affordable tools. Read more >>

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Partnerships Put “Action” into the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control Pneumonia and Diarrhoea

Posted by  on Wednesday, May 15th 2013     

As the first-ever Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea tackles the two leading killer diseases of children less than five years old. Read more >>

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How You’re About to Help Save the Lives of 4 million Children

Posted by  on Tuesday, December 21st 2010     

The U.S. has been a leader in immunization, but we can’t do it alone. Read more >>

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