Direct Relief: Children's Cancer Drugs Are Scarce in Uganda. A New Partnership Is Changing That
May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020
SANTA BARBARA, California, May 15 -- Direct Relief issued the following news:
Before COVID-19, it was hard enough to get pediatric cancer drugs in Uganda.
"You might have a child with leukemia, and only three or four of the six or seven drugs that are needed to treat the leukemia optimally would be available," said Dr. David Poplack, the director of Global HOPE, a Texas Children's Hospital program working to improve pediatric cancer outcomes in Sub-Saharan Afr . . .
Before COVID-19, it was hard enough to get pediatric cancer drugs in Uganda.
"You might have a child with leukemia, and only three or four of the six or seven drugs that are needed to treat the leukemia optimally would be available," said Dr. David Poplack, the director of Global HOPE, a Texas Children's Hospital program working to improve pediatric cancer outcomes in Sub-Saharan Afr . . .