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Childhood cancer: launch of ground-breaking international delivery for essential medicines – WHO

"No child with #cancer should die because they lack access to life-saving medicines," Dr. Andre Ilbawi from the ‪@who‬ cancer control programme told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. Ahead of International Childhood Cancer Day, WHO and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced that the first countries are now receiving essential medicines through the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines, marking the beginning of a "global movement to provide children with cancer the medicines they need, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay". St. Jude has made a six-year, 200 million US dollar investment to launch the platform, providing medicines free of charge to countries in the pilot phase. "This is the largest financial commitment ever made for childhood cancer medicines globally," Dr. Ilbawi said. Each year, around 400,000 children worldwide are diagnosed with cancer. "Tragically, most of these children live in resource-limited countries where medicines are either unaffordable or unavailable," the WHO official said. This disparity leads to an estimated 70 per cent of children succumbing to cancer, while high-income countries report survival rates of over 80 per cent. "The Platform is set to close this gap," he concluded.