IARC 60th Anniversary - 19-21 May 2026
Session : 20/05/26 - Posters
A livelihood based Survival Model for low income cancer patients in Kenya:Food security as a life saving public health intervention.
MWENDA G. 1, KILEMI N. 1
1 Needy Cancer Health Initiative, NAIROBI, Kenya
Needy Cancer Health Initiative is a non governmental organisation that supports needy cancer patients in Kenya, through a livelihood programme and pays for their social health coverage.Our mission is to restore hope to the hopeless in the cancer communities.Our livelihood programme is to facilitate for the survival rate by getting them access to treatment through the social health program,and by fundraising and crowdsourcing for food to give nourishing foods to needy cancer patients during active treatments for their chemotheraphies and radiotherapy.