 Pneumococcal Disease in Kathmandu On-going surveillance of IPD serotypes has been occurring at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu since 2005, identifying all paediatric admission from whom pneumococcus is isolated from normally sterile body fluids. This programme was initially funded through PneumoADIP as part of the South Asia Pneumococcal Alliance SAPNA with extensive collection of clinical, radiological and laboratory data, demonstrating pneumococcus to be a significant cause of disease in children in Kathmandu, and is currently funded by the World Health Organisation. 