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Documents on acute respiratory infections/pneumonia

Key documents

• Global action plan for prevention and control of pneumonia
  In this document, WHO and UNICEF summarize the global situation of pneumonia. This document outlines a vision, and sets out specific goals and targets to be achieved. It projects the cost of scaling up key interventions of proven benefit.

• Management of pneumonia in community settings
  This Joint Statement, prepared by WHO and UNICEF, provides examples of large-scale programmes, describes some of the barriers to effective care, and suggests steps that countries can take to reduce pneumonia-related mortality.

• Pneumonia : the forgotten killer of children
  This joint UNICEF/WHO report examines the epidemiological evidence on the burden and distribution of pneumonia and assesses current levels of treatment and prevention. It is a call to action to reduce pneumonia mortality.

2013

• Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
  The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)

2011

• Integrated management of childhood illness: caring for newborns and children in the community
• Priority medicines for mothers and children 2011
  Ensuring access to priority medicines for mothers and children improves health and saves lives.

2010

• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

2009

• Development of a Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
  Report of an informal consultation, Chavannes de Bogis, Switzerland, 25-27 February 2008
• Global action plan for prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP)
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009

2008

• Global action plan for the prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP): Report of an informal consultation
  Informal consultation at La Mainaz, Gex, France, 5–7 March 2007

2007

• A research agenda for childhood tuberculosis
  Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review
• Indoor air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections in children
  Report of a symposium held at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, 4 September 2006, presenting preliminary results of a randomized intervention trial in Guatemala and a workshop discussing the implication for policy, advocacy and future research
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth
  Report from a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), September 2005, Johannesburg

2004

• Ethambutol efficacy and toxicity
  Literature review and recommendations for daily and intermittent dosage in children
• Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children
• Indoor air pollution and child health in Pakistan
  Report of a seminar held at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 29 September 2005
• Informal consultation on clinical use of oxygen
• Management of pneumonia in community settings
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Pneumonia: the forgotten killer of children
• Situation analysis of household energy use and indoor air pollution in Pakistan
• TB/HIV: A clinical manual

2002

• Evidence base for the community management of pneumonia

2001

• Cough and cold remedies for the treatment of acute respiratory infections in young children
• IMCI technical seminars

1990-1999

• Bronchodilators and other medications for the treatment of wheeze-associated illnesses in young children
• Oxygen therapy for acute respiratory infections in young children in developing countries
• Technical bases for the WHO recommendations on the management of pneumonia in children at first-level health facilities