Aisling Mäki, with some much-needed good news:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has partnered with the World Health Organization to distribute life-saving cancer medicines to children in countries with lower pediatric cancer survival rates.
The partners first announced the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines in 2021 to get lifesaving treatments to children around the world.
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, St. Jude and WHO said they’d begun delivering medicines to pilot countries Mongolia and Uzbekistan, with the next shipments planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia.
Countries in the pilot phase will receive an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured childhood cancer medicines at no cost.