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The 2018 follow-up report on pneumonia and diarrhea shows that ORS coverage was reduced by 13 percentage points, exclusive badfeeding within 10 percentage points, while access pneumonia care has decreased by four percentage points in one year.
With a total of 2 60 990 deaths of children under 5 due to pneumonia and diarrhea, India remains at the top of the list of 15 countries with the highest number of victims. While 1,588,176 children under five died of pneumonia, diarrhea resulted in 1,022,813 deaths in 2016.
The report – published by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – also shows that Indian girls are losing immunization despite improving total immunization coverage.
According to the report, only 78 women were completely immunized for 100 fully vaccinated men in poor areas of Delhi. Addressing these disparities can help reduce the burden of pneumonia and diarrhea, he added.
The report, published on November 12th before the 10th World Pneumonia Day, examines progress and gaps in the coverage of interventions to "protect, prevent and treat" pneumonia and diarrhea.
In 2016, pneumonia and diarrhea caused 1.36 million deaths of children of the same category. Of the two-thirds of the global burden of pneumonia and diarrhea deaths, only 15 countries. Despite a significant reduction in the number of diseases in recent years and an improvement in access to and use of health interventions, nearly half a million deaths from pneumonia and diarrhea occurred in are still produced in India and Nigeria.
The report states that exclusive badfeeding, vaccination, access to care and use of antibiotics, oral rehydration solution and zinc supplementation are essential interventions to help prevent and treat pneumonia and diarrhea.
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