Today is the first ever World Pneumonia Day. It’s part of global health initiative to raise awareness of a disease that kills two million children annually.

Vaccinations and good nutrition have all but eliminated pneumonia deaths in the developed world, but in poor countries it kills more children than HIV/AIDS, measles and malaria combined.

A recent trip to Bangladesh put those numbers into sharp focus for Dr. Steven Goldstein…Director of the Institute of Molecular Pediatric Science at the University of Chicago. He recently went to the South Asian nation on a trip with Save the Children.

He told me about his eye-opening trip and the need to curb pneumonia deaths in the developing world…