Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of deaths in children under five years old despite being easily preventable and treatable.

World Pneumonia Day is marked every year on November 12 to raise awareness about pneumonia, to promote interventions to protect against, prevent, and treat pneumonia and highlight proven approaches and solutions in need of additional resources and attention and to generate action, including continued donor investment, to combat pneumonia and other common, yet sometimes deadly, childhood diseases.

The theme this year is “Keep the promise. Stop pneumonia now”.