Provide Treatment to Children With Leukemia

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Summary

This project provides medication and treatment for a Russian child with aplastic anemia. Aplastic anemia is a rare autoimmune disorder, but has excellent survival rates with treatment.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $9,930 was raised for this project.

Received $9,930 from 18 donations from people like:

Oxana Spivey
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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Children suffering from leukemia and aplastic anemia (a rare autoimmune disorder that renders the body unable to produce new blood cells) receive medical care at RCCH, the only hospital in Russia equipped to treat these diseases. A bone marrow transplant is one treatment option for patients of both leukemia and aplastic anemia; however, government funding for such transplants has been cut significantly in the past 10 years.

Activities

This project provides treatment for a ward of the Russian Central Children’s Hospital in Moscow. Children living on the ward require either a bone marrow transplant or immunosuppressant therapy-- two difficult yet highly successful treatment options.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $9,930

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $9,930.  The original project funding goal was $22,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The long-term goal of the program is to increase the number of children who receive life-saving bone marrow transplants as opposed to palliative treatment. This is possible through increases in program funding.

Project Message

“Over the last seven years, we’ve watched as 137 children with aplastic anemia have received cutting edge treatment for their disease at the Institute.”
- Andrea Flynn Sequeira, Program Officer, CityBridge Foundation

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Alexei Maschan,
Director, Institute for Pediatric Hematology
Russian Central Children's Hospital
117 Leninsky Prospect
Korpus # 2, Komnata 208, Moscow
Russia
7-095-936-9423
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Research Institute for Pediatric Hematology
Russian Central Children's Hospital
117 Leninsky Prospect
Korpus # 2, Komnata 208, Moscow 
Russia
7-095-936-9423

Learn more about Research Institute for Pediatric Hematology and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Russia and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Russia, read the Human Development Report on Russia or the Wikipedia entry for Russia.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 01, 2005.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 25, 2005.

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