McCann Health joins initiative to end preventable child deaths

Specifically, McCann Health will donate in-kind resources and technical assistance to a USAID effort focused on increasing treatment of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia, which take more than 2 million children’s lives every year. Diarrhea and pneumonia are responsible for 29 per cent of child deaths worldwide, with the majority of these deaths taking place in a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. As most of deaths are preventable using effective, low-cost treatments, the initiative aims not only to provide the treatments, but to raise awareness of the problem and stoke demand for the treatments among effected populations.