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WHO launches plan for free child cancer medicines in low-income countries

Palestinian children suffering from cancer receive treatment at a hospital in Gaza City on 13 February, 2018 AFP

The World Health Organization launched on Tuesday a new platform providing cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children living in low- and middle-income countries, in a bid to improve lagging survival rates.

The first medicines were being delivered to Mongolia and Uzbekistan, the WHO said, with further shipments planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia, as part of the project's pilot phase.

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