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Wednesday, 26 July 2023
REMINDER MEDIA ADVISORY
Virtual Press Conference on global health issues
When: Wednesday, 26 July 2023 at 15.00 CEST ( Geneva time)
Subject: Global health issues + Guest speaker James R. Downing, President & Chief Executive Officer St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Background: James R. Downing, M.D., president and chief executive officer of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will join with an update on the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines.
St. Jude and the WHO co-founded the platform in 2021 to provide an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured cancer medicines to treat children with cancer in low-and-middle income countries where childhood cancer survival rates are less than 30%, far below what it is in higher-income countries.
The Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines is part of the ambitious St. Jude Strategic Plan, focused on accelerating progress on catastrophic childhood diseases on a global scale through the institution’s largest investment in research and patient care.
The WHO and St. Jude joined forces in 2018, when St. Jude became the first WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer and committed $15 million for the creation of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer. The initiative supports more than 70 governments in building and sustaining local cancer programs and aims to increase survival to 60% by 2030.
NOTE: As this is the summer holiday season in some parts of the world and some journalists may be on vacation, please feel free to contact the media team if you need to ask a question in writing. We will see if we can accommodate your written questions during the press conference or will respond via email afterwards.
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