Summary
Organization name
World Child Cancer USA
2012
Category
Diseases, Disorders & Medical Disciplines
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
1301 Arapahoe St Suite 105Golden, CO 80401
BD
CO
GH
MW
MX
Most childhood cancers are curable. We know this because survival rates in high-income countries like the USA and UK regularly top 80%. But, for children in low and middle-income countries, the prognosis is bleak. Their chance of survival fell lower than 30%. Did you know that every three minutes a young life is lost to childhood cancer?
The challenge is ensuring every child gets the diagnosis, treatment, and care they need. Yet in many countries, public and professional awareness of childhood cancer is dangerously low. Opportunities for early diagnosis are missed. Referrals are delayed. And there are not enough health workers with the specialist skills to diagnose and treat the disease.
It is children and families that pay the price.
Determined to balance this inequity, World Child Cancer works with local, regional, and international partners in 12 program countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Central America to improve treatment, early diagnosis, family support, awareness, and advocacy. Your funding will help improve the chance of survival of children with cancer, irrespective of where they live and their ability to access diagnostics and treatment.
Our vision is a world where every child with cancer has access to the best possible treatment and care. Our mission is to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment and care for children across the developing world, redressing the global inequality in the treatment of cancer.
World Child Cancer improves cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care for children in the developing world. That is where 80% of the children with cancer live, and where the childhood cancer survival rate is lower than 30%, compared to 80% in the U.S. and parts of Western Europe. World Child Cancer has significantly changed the outcomes for survival by setting up partnerships between hospitals in the developed and developing worlds, facilitating training, improving access to medication, developing support services for families and initiating outreach in the local communities.
We are implementing our proven methodology for improving cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care for children across the developing world. For maximum impact, we "twin" hospitals in the developed world with select medical centers in the developing world. Through this partnership, the twinning hospital invests thousands of hours to assure that the hospital in the developing world gains assistance in improving infrastructure, processes, training, implementing a childhood cancer database, family education and support, and even housing for families. Both hospitals learn from each other and build personal and professional ties with each other. This model allows World Child Cancer to invest in the infrastructure and build capacity in country, so the investments are sustainable and long lasting. As these hospitals improve and thrive, children's lives are saved.
World Child Cancer began operations in 2007 and currently operate programs in 12 countries across Africa, Asia and central America.
Organization name
World Child Cancer USA
2012
Category
Diseases, Disorders & Medical Disciplines
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
1301 Arapahoe St Suite 105BD
CO
GH
MW
MX