Pneumonia: Rethinking vaccine strategies to save lives
Output type
Video
Location
Somaliland
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Topics
Communicable diseases
Programme
Humanitarian Research
Organisations
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
This video explains the need to administer vaccines to prevent against pneumococcal disease in humanitarian settings. It highlights the key findings from a study which considered the most effective and cost-effective pneumococcal vaccination strategies to reduce the disease burden in humanitarian settings. A single dose campaign administered to at least 80% of children under the age of five may prevent up to a third of severe pneumococcal disease for up to two years following vaccination. The impacts are even greater when all children under the age of 15 are vaccinated.
Watch the video to find out more (also available in French and Arabic).
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