Save the Children Joins with Scholastic to "Knock Pneumonia Off the Map!"

New Website and Google Map to Help Reach More Than 200,000 Teachers Nationwide in Fight Against Childhood Pneumonia 

WESTPORT, Conn. (Nov.16, 2009) — Save the Children today announced "Knock Pneumonia Off the Map," a new educational program with Scholastic, the international children's publishing, education and media company, that will educate children, teachers and parents nationwide about childhood pneumonia. 

The new "Knock Pneumonia Off the Map" website that launched today provides lesson plans and printables that engage students on the issue of childhood pneumonia, while helping to teach essential standard-based skills in math, science, reading comprehension and geography.

Teachers can "Put Your Classroom on the Map!" to register their participation on a special Save the Children Google map page.

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Save the Children Launches Interactive Online Quiz Game "Mission: Pneumonia." Players Can Share Facts via Twitter and Facebook

WESTPORT, Conn. (Nov.2,2009) — On the first annual World Pneumonia Day,
Save the Children launched a special online quiz game, Mission: Pneumonia, to help people get the facts about childhood pneumonia. Read latest press release

New U.S. Senate Bill to Improve Global Survival Rates for Mothers and Babies

A bi-partisan team of U.S. Senators introduced legislation on October 28, 2009 that would improve the health and survival of mothers and children under age 5 in developing countries. Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (R-TN) co-sponsored the bill called the Global Child Survival Act of 2009.

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We believe all children should live to celebrate their fifth birthday.

The Survive to 5 campaign supports Millennium Development Goal 4 — to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015 and save the lives of over 5 million children under 5 who are dying of preventable and treatable diseases.

In order to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 we focus on:

• Increasing access to community health care for children and their families in countries where access to clinics is limited.
• Supporting advocacy efforts to ensure governments in donor and developing countries prioritize spending on maternal and child health programs.
• Mobilizing citizens and leaders to take action on behalf of children, with efforts such as World Pneumonia Day.

Global Pneumonia Summit: Watch the Summit

More than 200 scientists, journalists, public health leaders and policymakers gathered in New York City on Nov. 2, to discuss pneumonia prevention and treatment at the first-ever Global Pneumonia Summit. Watch the Webcast.

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Bill Frist Speaks at Capitol Hill Reception for World Pneumonia Day

Speaking at the U.S. Capitol, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD, chair of Save the Children's Survive to 5 campaign and a board trustee, urged, "If each one of us does our bit nearly one million pneumonia deaths each year could be prevented or treated."

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