[Policy Review] The My Child Matters programme: effect of public –private partnerships on paediatric cancer care in low-income and middle-income countries

In low-income and middle-income countries, an excess in treatment failure for children with cancer usually results from misdiagnosis, inadequate access to treatment, death from toxicity, treatment abandonment, and relapse. The My Child Matters programme of the Sanofi Espoir Foundation has funded 55 paediatric cancer projects in low-income and middle-income countries over 10 years. We assessed the impact of the projects in these regions by using baseline assessments that were done in 2006. Based on these data, estimated 5-year survival in 2016 increased by a median of 5 ·1%, ranging from −1·5% in Venezuela to 17·5% in Ukraine.

Source: The Lancet Oncology - April 26, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Scott C Howard, Alia Zaidi, Xueyuan Cao, Olivier Weil, Pierre Bey, Catherine Patte, Angelica Samudio, Laurie Haddad, Catherine G Lam, Claude Moreira, Augusto Pereira, Mhamed Harif, Laila Hessissen, Salma Choudhury, Ligia Fu, Miguela A Caniza, Julius Lecci Tags: Policy Review Source Type: research