The World Health Organization Launched on Tuesday a New Platform Providing Cost-FREE CANCER Medicines for Thousands of Children Living in low- and midle-ideal counts, in a bid to idprove legging survival.

The first medicine was being delivered to Mongolia and uzbekistan, the whoe said, with further shipments planned for ecuador, jordan, nepal and zambia, zambia, as part of the Project ‘.

The treatments are expected to Reach Around 5,000 Children with Cancer this year across at least 30 hospitals in that that six nations.

“Countries in the Pilot Phase will receive an uninterrupted supply of quality -assured Childhood Cancer Medicines at no cost,” The un health agency said in a statement.

The whoe said that Childhood Cancer Survival Rates in low- and Middle-Income Countries Were Often Bell 30 Percent, Compared with Around 80 Percent in High-Income Countries.

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A Further Six Countries have been invited to join the platform, which hopes to reag 50 counties in the next five to spends, providing medicines for Approximately 120,000 Chaildren.

An Estimated 400,000 Children Worldwide Develop Cancer Every Year, Most of Them Living in Resource-Limited Settings, The who said.

“It is estimated that 70 percent of the Children from these settings die from cancer due to factors such as a lac of appropriate treatment, treatment decisions or low-quality medicines,”

The who said cost-free provision would continue beyond the pilot phase, and the platform is working on developing its its sustainability over the longer term.

The plan to establish the platform was first announced in December 2021.

It is a joint enterprise between the who and st. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennese in the united states.

The Non-Profit Pediatric Treatment and Research Institution has Committed $ 200 Million to its launch, the who said.

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