A major focus of the World Pneumonia Day effort was engaging political leadership to advance efforts to protect against, prevent and treat child pneumonia, particularly in countries with high disease burden. Event highlights include the following: Pneumococcal Vaccine Introduction Brings New Hope to Malawian Families On World Pneumonia Day, Malawi became the 16th GAVI-eligible country to introduce pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into its routine immunization program, promising to protect millions of children from pneumococcal pneumonia. This was an instrumental step for the country, where 14 percent of under-five child deaths were due to pneumonia in 2008. The first vaccine was given to a two-month old baby boy at.
