The Permissibility of Rotavirus Vaccines - A Personal Perspective

Pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease are the two top killers of children. UNICEF reports that these two diseases kill more than 2 million children each year. They make up 30% of childhood deaths under the age of 5 worldwide. In the management of diarrhea, key interventions include; encouraging infant breastfeeding, improving access to clean drinking water, oral rehydration solutions and vaccination. Funding Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines (PCV) and Rotavirus (RV) vaccines could prevent another one million children from dying every year.