On World Pneumonia Day this year, the Egyptian Medical Students’ Association (EMSA), an organization comprised of dedicated Egyptian medical students and professionals, began a nationwide “Protect Your Child” awareness and vaccination campaign, which aimed to vaccinate high risk children against pneumonia and inform the Egyptian population about the dangers of pneumonia and the risk it poses to their children. EMSA also endeavored to reach out to the larger pneumonia advocacy community in Egypt by establishing the Egyptian Coalition against Child Pneumonia, now the largest pneumonia coalition in Africa and the Middle East. Collaborating with members from this coalition, EMSA conducted a week of successful advocacy activities celebrating World Pneumonia Day (for more information, see.
