All-Party Parliamentary Group for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia

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03 July 2007 (14:30 - 15:30)
APPG Meeting: How to prevent pneumococcal disease and pneumonia - leading killers of children

Venue: Room O, Portcullis House

The APPG on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention in the Developing World will be discussing how to prevent pneumococcal disease and pneumonia - leading killers of children, at a key issues briefing and Q&A session in July.

Key issues and speakers on this occasion will include:

The Roadmap to Prevention - Dr. Orin Levine, Director of PneumoADIP (Pneumococcal Vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan), based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore - the Roadmap to Prevention

View from the frontline: the African perspective - Fred Ware, Chairman, Kenyan Paediatric Association

The global disease burden and its affect on developing nations - Dr Adam Finn, a member of PneumoMAP (Pneumococcal Medical Advisory Panel), the expert group of clinical experts on pneumococcal disease

To rsvp, or if you would like any further information, please email info@appg-preventpneumo.org.uk