The 'Breath of Life: sustainably scaling oxygen access in Uganda' conference will bring oxygen partners, funders, clinicians, academics, innovators, government institutions and the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH) together to address the need for increased access to reliable oxygen at the under-resourced periphery of Uganda's health services.

In 2021, the Oxygen CoLab awarded a UKAid funded oxygen-as-a-service pilot (O2aaS) grant to FREO2 to test the scaling of an innovative business model that ensures the sustained provision of medical grade oxygen in low-resource settings in Tanzania.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world's attention to the blight of respiratory infections and the global pneumonia crisis. As the leading infectious killer worldwide, pneumonia is considered the "forgotten killer", responsible for 2.6 million deaths in 2017. Medical oxygen is a proven and extremely cost-effective intervention, demonstrating a 35% reduction in mortality for patients with pneumonia and has been shown to be twice as cost effective as vaccination.