2019 Awardees
Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide each year, mainly in low- and middle-income countries where 80% of the world’s smokers live.
The organisations and projects selected to enter the SPARC MBC Challenge network are:
- Asociación Tour Rosa (Costa Rica): Más vida (more life)
- Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute (Botswana): Improving timely access to care for women with advanced stage breast cancer
- Cancer Aware - One Kind Act Foundation (Nigeria): Leveraging mobile technology for metastatic breast cancer patients and caregivers
- Cancer Warriors de Mexico, A.C. (Mexico): Establishment of a surveillance commission to enforce the rights of Mexican women with MBC
- Medicaid Cancer Foundation (Nigeria): One call away: supporting MBC patients to access healthcare and psychosocial support
- Ocean Road Cancer Institute (Tanzania): Developing a resource centre for patients with metastatic breast cancer in Tanzania
- Rumah Sakit Kanker Dharmais - National Cancer Center (Indonesia): Palliative care needs assessment of metastatic breast cancer patients in West Jakarta
- University of Cyprus (Cyprus): Guiding metastatic breast cancer women after diagnosis to meet unmet needs
- Venezuelan Breast Cancer Research and Education Foundation (Venezuela): Reframing advanced breast cancer: from expectations to facts
- Zambian Cancer Society (Zambia): Nthano Zathu Radio Drama for MBC women
- Zanmi Lasante (Haiti): Assisting metastatic breast cancer patients to navigate care
Last update
Thursday 12 January 2023