Prevent Cancer Foundation® awards $400,000 in global community grants
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Contact: Hayley Cooke
Hayley.Cooke@preventcancer.org
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الإسكندرية، فيرجينيا – مؤسسة الوقاية من السرطان® announced five new funding recipients for cancer prevention and early detection programs. The Foundation is proud to support these projects through its global community grants program, which focuses on delivering services and/or education to low- and middle-income countries and providing technology to advance quality screening or prevention practices.
The five awardees for 2019, located in Mexico, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Poland, are focused on increasing quality screening or education for colorectal, breast, cervical or lung cancers. The programs will have direct impact in communities where awareness, programming and resources are limited for cancer prevention and early detection.
The global community grants are made possible in part by ألعاب رهيبة تم إنجازها بسرعة, a speedrunning video game marathon that raises funds for the Prevent Cancer Foundation®.
Here are the Foundation’s 2019 global community grant recipients:
منظمة: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health)
عنوان: Feasibility of Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Existing Primary Prevention Activities in Mexico City
موقع المشروع: Mexico
جائزة: $100,000 for one year
The program will promote awareness and provide colorectal cancer screening services in Mexico City, where colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. This program aims to be a model for screening.
منظمة: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
عنوان: Cervical Cancer Prevention Project
موقع المشروع: غانا
جائزة: $50,000 لمدة سنة واحدة
The project will focus on the prevention, screening and treatment of cervical cancer for women, including those living with HIV, in northwestern Ghana. They expect to screen 4,000 women and raise awareness of cervical cancer and screening methods among tens of thousands of women.
منظمة: مركز ميموريال سلون كيترينج للسرطان
عنوان: Feasibility of Breast Cancer Screening in High-Risk Nigerian Women Using a Novel Low-Cost Device
موقع المشروع: Nigeria
جائزة: $100,000 for one year
High-risk or symptomatic Nigerian women will be provided with breast cancer education and traditional screening methods and will also be evaluated with a new hand-held portable device called the iBreast Exam. The data from these screenings will inform future screening efforts through a partnership with the Ministry of Health.
منظمة: New York University School of Medicine
عنوان: Smartphone-Enhanced Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment Algorithms Study Using HPV Testing in Africa (SE-CESTA)
موقع المشروع: South Africa
جائزة: $100,000 for one year
This project will screen 2,000 women for cervical cancer using smartphone-enhanced screening practices and an mHealth patient navigation platform. The results will fill critical research gaps in the current evidence for cervical cancer screening and secondary prevention in South Africa.
منظمة: الجمعية الإشعاعية لأمريكا الشمالية
عنوان: Improving CT Lung Cancer Screening in Poland with QIBA Conformance Services
موقع المشروع: Poland
جائزة: $50,000 لمدة سنة واحدة
This country-wide project in Poland will use new cloud-based quantitative computed tomography (CT) imaging conformance certification services and CT image quality phantoms (test objects) at 16 new lung cancer screening sites to ensure that CT lung cancer screening is accurate and precise.
In addition to supporting global community grants, the Foundation funds community grants in the U.S. and has provided support to programs in 33 states, tribes and territories.
حول مؤسسة الوقاية من السرطان®
مؤسسة الوقاية من السرطان® is one of the nation’s leading voluntary health organizations and the only U.S. nonprofit organization focused solely on cancer prevention and early detection. Founded in 1985, it has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence and fulfills its mission through research, education, outreach and advocacy.
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