A Global Fund for cancer care in low- and middle-income countries
Copy the model that transformed HIV, TB and malaria care: a pooled international fund that pays for radiotherapy machines, pathology labs and essential cancer medicines where there are none.
A replenishment-based multilateral financing facility, governed with recipient countries, that funds radiotherapy capacity (building on IAEA Rays of Hope), pathology and diagnostic networks, pooled procurement of essential oncology medicines at negotiated prices, and workforce training. Allocation would follow burden and readiness formulas. Cancer now kills more people in LMICs than HIV, TB and malaria combined, but has no comparable financing vehicle; philanthropic and bilateral efforts are fragmented.
- Funding follows fashion, not burden · Money goes to the cancers and questions that are easy or popular, not the ones that kill most or where a dollar would do most.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- InstitutionInstitut Salah Azaïez
Shares Brachytherapy, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam), Cervical cancer.
- InstitutionDharmais National Cancer Center
Shares Brachytherapy, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
- InstitutionHacettepe University Cancer Institute
Shares Brachytherapy, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam), Cervical cancer.
- IdeaRadiotherapy for everyone who needs it by 2040
Shares Brachytherapy, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Most of the world has almost no cancer care, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
- InstitutionKorle Bu Teaching Hospital
Shares Brachytherapy, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam), Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
- InstitutionHo Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital
Shares Brachytherapy, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam), Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
- IdeaEliminate infection-caused cancers: HPV, hepatitis B and C, H. pylori and EBV
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
- PersonRajendra Badwe
Shares Burden-matched funding for trials led in low- and middle-income countries, Tata Memorial Centre, HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer.