Fighting pneumonia, the biggest killer of young children
Pneumonia causes around 2 million child deaths per year globally and the burden is especially heavy in a country like Bangladesh, where a third of the population is aged 14 or below.
Jun 06, 2016
The global fight against pneumonia is supported by Sandoz, the generics division of Novartis, which to date has supplied 500,000 treatment courses of a special child formulation of amoxicillin to UNICEF to help children worldwide.
Using antibiotics to thwart child pneumonia
The global fight against pneumonia is supported by Sandoz, the generics division of Novartis, which to date has supplied 500,000 treatment courses of a special child formulation of amoxicillin to UNICEF to help children worldwide. The medicine was made available as part of the United Nations Every Newborn Action Plan, designed to eliminate preventable deaths among babies.