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Luc* and his mother at the Save the Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Pneumonia – the forgotten epidemic

Pneumonia is the world’s deadliest disease but it’s often a forgotten epidemic. Every year it kills more children than any other illness. To put this into context, one child dies from pneumonia every 39 seconds.

Despite these horrific stats, many people don’t realise the huge, damaging affect the disease has on children. A recent poll […]

Save the Children staff member

Celebrating the role of midwives!

Today, International Day of the Midwife celebrates the essential role that midwives play, all over the world, in assisting women and their newborn during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Hundreds of thousands of women still die every year due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth – an estimated 830 women a day. And despite […]