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"My child matters" initiative
funds 12 new projects
At
its meeting on 13-14 December 2006, the "My child matters" advisory
steering committee agreed to fund 12 new projects in six
low- and middle-income countries. The
countries are Bolivia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mali, Peru and
Romania, and the projects selected are listed below.
"My
child matters" is a UICC partnership with the sanofi-aventis
department of humanitarian sponsorship.
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Bolivia
- Learning to grow under special conditions - Lucia Parejas, Fundación Amigos y Familiares de Niños con Cáncer
(AFANIC), Santa Cruz.
- Free leukaemia diagnosis for Bolivian children - Ricardo Amaru Lucana,
Cellular Biology Unit, Oncohaematology, School of Medicine, Mayor de San Andrés University, La Paz.
- Early diagnosis and follow-up of childhood cancer in East Bolivia -
Yolanda Ernst, Instituto Oncológico
del Oriente Boliviano, Santa Cruz.
Indonesia
- Integrated community-based early detection, referral and treatment
of leukaemia and retinoblastoma - Melissa Luwia, Indonesian Cancer
Foundation (YKI), Jakarta.
- Early detection and prompt treatment of retinoblastoma - Rita
S Sitorus, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Indonesia, Dr Cripto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta.
Kenya
- Establishing awareness of the occurrence of Burkitt's lymphoma
for the purposes of early detection and treatment and determining
environmental and familial factors associated with its occurrence
in Kenya - Nicholas Anthony Othieno Abinya, Kenya Medical Research
Institute, Nairobi.
Mali
- Oncopedia Mali - Boubacar Togo, Hôpital Gabriel Touré, Bamako.
Peru
- Update in paediatric oncology: an eLearning service - Gustavo
Sarria Bardales, National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, Lima.
- Developing the care facilities and improving the support services
of the Albergue para Enfermos de Cáncer "Señor
de la Divina Misericordia" - Nelly Isabel Therese Huamaní,
ALDIMI, Surquillo, Lima.
Romania
- Improving the diagnostic services for children with cancer -
Doina Mihaila, St Mary's Emergency Children's Hospital, Iasi.
- Assessing
the childhood cancer burden in Romania and ways of improving
it - Adela Ratiu, Institute of Oncology "Prof Dr
Al Trestioreanu", Bucharest.
- Building a future for Romanian children - Olga-Rodica Cridland,
Association PAVEL, Bucharest.
An article on the 12 projects selected will appear in the Lancet
Oncology in January 2007.
The advisory steering committee also agreed to continue funding
in 2007 for the 14
pilot projects in 10 resource-constrained countries - Bangladesh, Egypt, Honduras, Morocco, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania,
Ukraine, Vietnam and Venezuela - that completed their first year
of operation in 2006.
For
further information, please contact Jose
Julio Divino, the
global campaign coordinator.
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