Texas Children's Global Health Corps Cancer Program

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Every case of pediatric cancer is devastating, but in some parts of the world, the disease is no less than a death sentence. Lacking resources, expertise, and medical systems, African physicians often deem cancers fatal that have 98% cure rates in the West. Pediatric cancer patients in Africa are diagnosed late and treated inadequately; ultimately, 9 out of 10 of these children die.
The Texas Children's Global Health Corps Cancer Program is a train-the-trainer program designed to intensively educate and train local physicians in sub-Saharan Africa in the care of children with cancer. This program is modeled after the successful Pediatric AIDS Corps of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), a key partner of the Texas Children's Cancer Center (www.txch.org), which through a similar train-the-trainer program is providing treatment to over 100,000 African children with HIV infection.
Corps doctors, who are fully trained American Sub-board eligible or certified Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologists, will work within this well-established and sustainable BIPAI infrastructure (built over 10 years with an investment of $150 million) in several different African countries, engaging and educating local physicians to help develop the country's future leaders in pediatric oncology. This program will create local sites for treating children with cancer and will also train the professionals who will function at these sites. In many cases, our cancer program will represent the sole organized pediatric oncology effort in these countries.

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