Save the Children Launches Massive Vaccination Campaign

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"Save the Children" says that millions of children could be saved each year with vaccinations. The group is calling on rich nations to help prevent the needless deaths of millions of babies and toddlers around the world.

Save The Children on Monday launched its biggest ever campaign to prevent the needless deaths of one million children in the developing world from both pneumonia and diarrhea.

The "No Child Born To Die" campaign says that seven million more young children could be saved through simple changes to boost rural healthcare in poor countries.

At the event in London the charity said it needs 500 million pounds a year over the next five years to fund new vaccines that would protect vulnerable children from dying from these diseases.

[Justin Forsyth, CEO, "Save the Children"]:
"I have been moved and shocked by the number of children still dying from completely preventable illnesses like diarrhea and pneumonia. It's really unbelievable that in 2011 children could still die from an upset tummy, or they die in the first few hours after birth from a complication from the lack of a midwife or a trained health worker."

Forsyth is calling on political leaders in the developed world to make good on their promises of money to reduce child mortality rates in poverty stricken countries.

The "No Child Born To Die" campaign hopes G8 countries will pledge the money at a special G8 conference in a few months time to be held in the UK.

[Justin Forsyth, CEO, "Save the Children"]:
"It's just a question of political will. I mean this is a drop in the ocean in comparison to the money that's been mobilized to bail out the banks. It's a drop in the ocean in terms of actually even international aid budgets, but it needs to be focused now, right now, to pay for these two new vaccinations for diarrhea and pneumonia. That could save alone one million children's lives."

Doctor Abhay Bang, from India told the launch about a simple scheme he pioneered in the remote eastern district of Gadchiroli.

Local women there have been trained in basic midwife skills and knowledge.

The infant mortality rate has dropped from 121 per 1,000 babies in 1988 to just 30 deaths per 1,000 babies in 2007.

[Abhay Bang, Indian Doctor]:
"These community health workers literally become a mobile new-born and childcare units. They can go house to house and save those children."

Pneumonia kills 1.6 million under fives every year, and diarrhea kills 1.3 million children annually.

That comes to almost 8 thousand deaths every day.

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[TheAuthentikate]

If rich nations weren't creating so much poverty then they wouldn't need vaccines. Evil Big Pharma at work here and WHO. What hypocracy! What a disgrace experimenting on African children. There is a huge amount of evidence that these vaccines have serious lifelong side effects. Spend money on free, clean water supply. Water companies are cutting off water to millions who can't afford to pay. Human Rights should be that all humans have free access to water, a basic human right.