The integrated Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)

Overview

The integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) proposes a cohesive approach to ending preventable pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths. It brings together critical services and interventions to create healthy environments, promotes practices known to protect children from disease, and ensures that every child has access to proven and appropriate preventive and treatment measures.

Reaching every child will require the scaling up and targeting of interventions known to prevent and control pneumonia and diarrhoea. This will be achieved through coordinated and collaborative child health and related programmes. Parents, communities, community health workers (CHWs), civil society and the private sector all have significant roles in enabling this vision.

Clear goals and coverage targets for reducing morbidity and mortality due to pneumonia and diarrhoea have been set from now until 2015 within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Though significant progress has been made towards these goals, much more can still be achieved through accelerated action between now until 2015, and beyond.