India has the highest number of pneumonia and diarrhoea
deaths among children globally, reports the International Vaccine Access
Centre (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The
2015 annual report of the IVAC reads like a repeat of last year’s
report card, despite the progress the country is making to accelerate
immunisation.
With 2,97,114 deaths, India is once
again at the top of the list of countries with the highest burden of the
two diseases among children under the age of five. The list includes
Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
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