Building a world where every child survives and thrives.

The Governments of Mozambique and Sierra Leone in partnership with the Government of Spain, the Gates Foundation, ”la Caixa” Foundation and UNICEF are organizing the Innovation and Action for Immunization and Child Survival Forum to be held from 22-24 July 2025 in Maputo, Mozambique.

Building on the successes of the previous global forums on childhood pneumonia, this forum will foster action to tackle the leading infectious disease threats to child survival. With only five years remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, urgent and coordinated action is needed to accelerate progress and get countries back on-track.

The forum will bring together stakeholders across selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions including senior health ministry officials, development agencies, donors, academia, civil society, and the private sector.

This forum will take place in the context of increasing pressure on low- and middle-income country government budgets, sharp declines in international development assistance, and rising disease outbreak and other threats due to climate change, conflict and flagging immunization coverage levels.

Accordingly, it will focus on new and underutilized tools to deliver progress on child survival, more effective infectious disease risk mitigation and surveillance strategies, more efficient models of service delivery, the need for robust prioritization exercises including for routine immunization systems and new vaccine introductions, and innovative child survival financing options.

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2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

On 26 and 27 April 2023, CaixaForum Madrid hosted the 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia, which brought together more than 300 participants to analyse the new challenges that have arisen following COVID-19 and to decide on the main actions and measures to be implemented by the different governments to reduce child deaths from pneumonia and accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal on child survival (SDG 3.2).

The two-day meeting brought together senior officials from 14 governments whose countries account for 60 % of all child pneumonia deaths, members of the Spanish government, leaders from the United Nations and multilateral development agencies, major donors, NGOs, private companies and the scientific community.

Twelve leading international health and children's organisations, ”la Caixa” Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, ISGlobal, USAID, Gavi The Vaccine Alliance, Every Breath Counts, Save the Children, Unitaid, PATH, Child Health Task Force and CHAI, took up this forum to address one of the biggest and most serious challenges facing children in the most vulnerable countries.

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1st Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

In January 2020, the first global conference on childhood pneumonia, the Global Forum, took place at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, a unique opportunity to ensure that pneumonia is placed at the forefront of national and global health agendas; to galvanise national action and mobilise the donor community to increase awareness of the scale of the pneumonia challenge.

Ministers and authorities from African and Asian countries, world leaders and experts in pneumonia and the most prestigious global health organisations and foundations took part.

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