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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.

Bolivia

1. Learning to grow under special conditions - Lucia Parejas, Fundación Amigos y Familiares de Niños con Cáncer (AFANIC), Santa Cruz.

2. Free leukaemia diagnosis for Bolivian children - Ricardo Amaru Lucana, Cellular Biology Unit, Oncohaematology, School of Medicine, Mayor de San Andrés University, La Paz.

3. Early diagnosis and follow-up of childhood cancer in East Bolivia - Yolanda Ernst, Instituto Oncológico del Oriente Boliviano, Santa Cruz.

Indonesia

1. Integrated community-based early detection, referral and treatment of leukaemia and retinoblastoma - Melissa Luwia, Indonesian Cancer Foundation (YKI), Jakarta.

2. 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

1. 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

1. Oncopedia Mali - Boubacar Togo, Hôpital Gabriel Touré, Bamako.

Peru

1. Update in paediatric oncology: an eLearning service - Gustavo Sarria Bardales, National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, Lima.

2. 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

1. Improving the diagnostic services for children with cancer - Doina Mihaila, St Mary's Emergency Children's Hospital, Iasi.

2. Assessing the childhood cancer burden in Romania and ways of improving it - Adela Ratiu, Institute of Oncology "Prof Dr Al Trestioreanu", Bucharest.

3. 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.

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