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VIVA China Children's Cancer Foundation Limited was set up set up on 17 December 2014 to provide an infrastructure and be a conduit to receive all the knowledge from an advanced centers of medical research and treatment overseas and transfer to China to improve the cancer cure rate for children. We are applying to be granted charity status by the Hong Kong authorities.

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"Saving lives of children with cancer through excellence in medical care, research, and education."

By focusing on improving research, as well as empowering scientists, doctors and nurses to develop better cures, VIVA China believes that it can offer children with cancer a better chance of being cured and surviving well, by ultimately changing how Children's cancers are being diagnosed and treated today in Asia.

RESEARCH
Partnering and funding
scientists and doctors in
key projects and clinical
research
EDUCATION
Providing the best facilities
and the best level of care
MEDICAL CARE
Empowering doctors,
nurses and care-providers
through training and
knowledge sharing

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The objects for which the Foundation is established are:

  • To improve the treatment and cure of childhood cancers (especially leukemia) and provision of long-term follow-up for childhood cancer survivors, which activities shall include but are not limited to the following:

    • To fund and support clinical research in childhood cancer (especially leukemia), stem cell transplantation and graft manipulation and to fund, establish and support clinical and translational research program(s) between an advanced centers of medical research and treatment overseas (Memphis, U.S.A.) or other foreign institutions and local institutions directed at, inter alia, understanding the causes of cancer in children, finding cures, prevention of childhood cancers and long-term care and follow-up of childhood cancer survivors
    • To establish and support local and regional or international programs or collaborations between local institution(s) and local institutions and an advanced centers of medical research and treatment overseas (Memphis, U.S.A.) or other foreign institutions that will provide training and continuing medical education to doctors, nurses, scientists, administrators, caregivers and other personnel involved in the care, treatment and follow-up of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors
    • To establish scholarships and fellowships for doctors, nurses, scientists, administrators and other personnel from China to train in an advanced centers of medical research and treatment overseas (Memphis, U.S.A.) or other foreign institutions and for personnel from such foreign institutions to conduct training for doctors, nurses, scientists, administrators and other personnel in China.
    • To establish chair(s) for professorship(s) in paediatric oncology, stem cell transplantation and/or related areas in universities in China and/or Hong Kong
    • To generally aid, assist and give relief in any manner, to any extent, to children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors and their families from China/Hong Kong in seeking treatment in China/Hong Kong

  • To fund, support and establish the hospitals in China or other local hospital(s) subsidized by the government as a center(s) of excellence for treatment and patient care, research and training of doctors, nurses, scientists, administrators, caregivers and other personnel involved in the treatment of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors, which activities shall include but are not limited to the following:

    • To develop, enhance or upgrade facilities, equipment, accommodation and space for or related to the treatment of childhood cancer (especially leukemia) at the hospitals in China, and the follow-up and care of childhood cancer survivors
    • To fund positions in hospitals in China or other institutions for doctors, nurses, administrators, technologists, therapists, social workers, and other personnel involved in the treatment and care of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors

  • To fund, establish and support regional centers in China to carry out regional outreach program(s) to be set up by the Foundation and/or other parties and an advanced centers of medical research and treatment overseas (Memphis, U.S.A.) that will provide training and continuing medical education programs and research opportunities in Asian countries in partnership with local parties institutions and corporations, which activities will include but are not limited to the following:

    • To organise childhood cancer workshop(s), conference(s) and/or seminars(s) to promote, inter alia, continuing medical education and training of doctors, nurses and caregivers and all those involve in the treatment and care of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors
    • To organise clinical treatment and research programs for children wih cancer and childhood cancer survivors in Asian countries
    • To carry out, do and execute any other activities in furtherance of and in support of the objectives hereinbefore mentioned