By Jennifer Bentzel | Fundraising Officer
Thank you so much for all your past support. This will be the final report for IMA World Health’s Help Cure Children with Cancer in Tanzania project on Global Giving. IMA will continue this program and continue to raise funds for our cervical cancer prevention and treatment program through our website.
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL) is a common childhood cancer most often affecting those living in high malaria prevalent areas. BL is a fast growing fatal tumor unless diagnosed and treated appropriately. Currently, IMA works with nearly 20 faith-based and public sector health care facilities to provide proper BL diagnosis and treatment. IMA has a longstanding partnership with Ocean Road Cancer Institute to build capacity of health care facilities through training of health care providers (clinicians, nurses, laboratory, pharmacy staff, and students) on BL diagnosis and case management. To date, IMA has trained over 2,000 health care providers in BL diagnosis and treatment and treated over 4,500 children in 12 regions. In 2009, IMA also facilitated the development of the Burkitt’s Lymphoma National Treatment Guidelines - the first cancer guidelines to be published in the country.
Thank you for all your past support. We could not provide the services we have provided over the past few years without your support. You have truly made a difference in the lives of children in need of diagnosis and treatment of Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL).
If you would like to continue to follow or support our work on cervical cancer please visit our website and our Facebook page (links found below).
If you would like to continue to support an IMA World Health project through Global Giving please check out our Safe Motherhood Kit project.
Again, thank you for all your past support!
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By Jennifer Bentzel | Fundraising Officer
