NEUMOAI RECOGNISES SUCCESS OF WORLD PNEUMONIA DAY

Asociación de Apoyo e Información a Familiares y Pacientes con Neumonía (NEUMOAI) accomplished their goals they had set for 2020. They launched the Worldwide Pneumonia Awareness Campaign 2020-2024. The campaign is called #Pneumolight and used the slogan “Pneumonia Affects Everyone”. The campaign illuminated 252 iconic landmarks from 52 countries worldwide in blue on World Pneumonia Day. The photos can be found here: www.flickr.com/gp/190586116@N04/VMK08F They organised the Global Conference for World Pneumonia Day 2020. This conference aimed to understand why pneumonia is considered a neglected disease and how we can solve this problem. Representatives of the main organisations that fight against pneumonia (WHO, Save the Children, Unicef, GAVI) and Presidents of the main scientific societies of respiratory, critics, infectious diseases, primary care and internal medicine, expressed their point of view on this disease (ELF, FIRS, ERS, ATS, SEMERGEN, SEMICYUC, PATS). Watch the conference recording here: https://youtu.be/xjCumtkV1Es NEUMOAI is planning a new impact campaign for World Pneumonia Day 2021 with the aim of giving visibility to pneumonia.