Improving Treatment
Improving the quality of childhood cancer care
Healthcare is a right not a privilege. A right enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child.
Most childhood cancers do not have a known cause. While impossible to prevent, they can be treated. But for children living in low and middle-income countries, the health workers, drugs and equipment they need are in desperately short supply.
Only available at a select few hospitals, high-quality treatment is hard to come by.
It is a situation that drives the disparity in care and causes thousands of preventable deaths each year.
The Work We Do
World Child Cancer is working to improve the availability of high-quality treatment and care for children with cancer.
We do this by:
- Making sure doctors and nurses have the drugs, equipment and support they need.
- Working with health education providers to develop certified training in childhood cancer.
- Bringing local, regional and international experts together to share skills (twinning partnerships).
Together we can help children with cancer to get the best-possible treatment and care. And by doing so, save thousands of lives.
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