The Thai Ministry of Public Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) recently hosted a meeting in Bangkok of leading experts in to focus on two major life-threatening causes of pneumonia and meningitis in South Asian children: the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae type B (or “Hib”), and streptococcus pneumonia - although both are vaccine-preventable. The research found every year the deadly diseases meningitis and pneumonia kill an estimated 2 million children globally under the age of 5 years, especially in Africa and Asia.
Photo caption: (left to right) Dr. Supamit Chunsuttiwat, Senior Expert in Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director, Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals, WHO, Dr. Orin Levine, Executive Director, GAVI’s PneumoADIP, Dr. Rana Hajjeh, The Hib Initiative, Project Director, Dr Samir Saha, Senior Consultant and Professor, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dr. Thomas Cherian, Coordinator EPI+, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, WHO.
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