WHO Launches New Cancer Drug Plan for Children — VOA Learning English
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new service, or platform, to provide free cancer medicines to thousands of children in less wealthy nations.
The WHO defines these as low- and middle-income countries. The first medicines were to be provided to Mongolia and Uzbekistan. The next shipments would go to Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia, as part of the project's testing, or pilot period, the WHO said.
The drug treatments are expected to reach around 5,000 children with cancer this year across at least 30 hospitals in the six countries.
"Countries in the pilot phase will receive an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured childhood cancer medicines at no cost," the U.N. health…
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