Pneumonia - the leading killer1,2 still claims >29%1
(including 10% neonatal death) of world’s under five
(U-5) annual deaths2-4 totaling to ~3 million,1 despite
advances in the understanding of patho-physiology of
child death.5 Pneumonia alone kills more children
than combined deaths due to AIDS, malaria,
tuberculosis and measles.1,6