Pneumonia’s Perception Problem
As you might know, World Pneumonia Day is Monday, November 2nd. At the start of the week we ran a small, unscientific poll asking people what they thought to be the number one killer of children under 5. Not surprisingly, just a fraction of readers answered correctly– pneumonia.
In anticipation of Monday, Dr. Orin Levine writes in Global Health Magazine about this perception problem. According to Dr. Levine, “unlike HIV and malaria, pneumonia has yet to inspire substantial donor support or grassroots activism” with a possible explanation being “pneumonia’s familiar yet unthreatening image in the developed world.”
You can read Dr. Levine’s full piece here, and read more about our World Pneumonia Day series here.
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