“If my child is a survivor, any child can survive.” World Child Cancer works to boost survival rates across Africa

Cyclone Freddy struck Malawi hard in recent months, destroying entire communities, washing away people’s homes, and killing hundreds of people and livestock. The number of people killed by Cyclone Freddy this year was the greatest to ever be reported in Malawi’s history of cyclones.

Here at World Child Cancer, we believe that healthcare is a right not a privilege. This is why we work to improve the availability of high-quality care for children with cancer.

One of the critical aspects of improving childhood cancer outcomes in Cameroon is ensuring that nurses have access to high-quality paediatric oncology training.

Cancer is a complicated topic which can feel overwhelming at any stage. For anyone, including those close to you, it can bring up feelings of negativity and uncertainty about the future.

In May, Gem Clark, Fund Portfolio Manager for UK Aid Match, and Emma Hayward, Performance and Risk Manager for UK Aid Match travelled to Malawi to visit four grant holders: CBM Global, Sightsavers, UNICEF and World Child Cancer.

Mental health is a crucial aspect of the care offered by World Child Cancer, yet gaps in existing practice require that more can and should be done to tailor our aid programmes.

World Child Cancer is actively extending its support to healthcare providers in Myanmar by conducting a series of webinars in the latter part of May and early June.

In January, UK Aid Match Fund Director Sarah Donachie, accompanied by Fiduciary Risk Officer Bridget Hall, and FCDO colleagues Bruce Reilly and Nicola Currie for the Open Societies team, visited Bangladesh to see how three fund projects were getting on.

Our lovely Programmes Intern, Sarah, has come to the end of her internship with us here at World Child Cancer. We asked her to share a little about her experience of working with our programmes team.

The UK Government and the British People raised over £360,000 with World Child Cancer for childhood cancer in Malawi. Find out what has been achieved so far

Last year, our Country Programme Advisor Ghazaleh Kad and Psychosocial Support Advisor Megan Cruise visited Malawi to gain a direct insight into the people and projects that World Child Cancer supports in the country. During their visit, they also provided training to staff and attended home visits for cancer patients and their families.

World Child Cancer are celebrating the graduation of 12 nurses from the second specialist Associate Paediatric Oncology Nursing Programme in Ghana. With funding from the UBS Optimus Foundation and training delivered by the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives, the programme supports the early diagnosis of children with cancer, followed by evidence-based therapy and supportive care.

World Child Cancer to host a discussion on Innovative Technology at the 2022 Skoll World Forum

The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) with support from World Child Cancer and Roche Products Ghana Ltd, has opened a new oncology centre for cancer care services in the northern part of Ghana.

World Child Cancer and the Sub-Saharan Nurses Wellbeing Group are running a pilot, offering free access to group support sessions with an experienced clinical psychologist

This will cover the diagnosis and treatment of four common childhood cancers: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), Burkitt lymphoma, retinoblastoma and Wilms tumour.

The UK Aid Match funded project, which is now at its midway point, aims to transform the lives of 7,800 children with cancer across Bangladesh by improving treatment, care and quality of life and access for those most vulnerable.

17 nurses have graduated from the first specialist Paediatric Oncology Nursing Programme in Ghana. They were inducted as Associate Members of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives.

Join World Child Cancer and Soleterre for a webinar on addressing the emotional wellbeing of personnel working with children with cancer in LMICs

The government has cut the aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of national income, meaning that aid spending will fall by a reported £4-5 billion this year.

Supporting the continued development of childhood cancer services in countries where survival rates…

Celebrating five years of palliative care in Bangladesh

Support the continued development of childhood cancer services in countries where survival rates…

A doctor working for World Child Cancer in Myanmar gives us an update on how the situation has impacted our work

World Child Cancer is working with its partners in Ghana to upgrade the Paediatric Oncology Unit of the Child Health Department of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

World Child Cancer’s new project with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital will lay the foundations for developing shared care in hospitals throughout Nepal

As the world now finds itself in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Child Cancer is stepping up to provide further assistance for those who need it the most

Central Cancer UK and World Child Cancer gets together for World Cancer Day

Read about Paediatric Histopathology Biomedical Scientist, Shanice Brown’s first time volunteering abroad where she chose to lend her skills to support children in Myanmar with us