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Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are key to the cure of pediatric cancer patients. Create awareness on the need for all children everywhere have access to these two pillars of recovery is the objective of the International Childhood Cancer Day, established since 2001 in Luxembourg.

In Argentina, there are wide disparities in access to these rights in different regions of the country. “While the results obtained in the main hospitals of the City of Buenos Aires are similar to those of recognized institutions in Europe, not the case in some provinces,” said a statement from the Natalie Daphne Flexor Foundation, dedicated to fighting disease in children.

To publicize the problem of these patients, the entity carrying out a campaign called “Stay up the shirt,” which invites the entire population out into the street with a white shirt to support children who suffer evil. Simultaneously throughout the country 25 NGOs active in the same struggle join this initiative, which also involve other countries in Latin America?

“Respect for the rights of children with cancer grew a lot in our country in recent years, but not the same thing happens in other Latin American nations, so we seek to be very expansive with our campaign,” said Edith DocSalud.com Grynszpancholc, President of the Foundation Flexor, an organization that assists more than a thousand families of cancer patients of low-income children each month.

The celebrities also joined the initiative, by enrolling in the Foundation’s website can participate in the raffle for an autographed jersey by forward Lionel Messy. In turn, adhere to the cause Fecund Arena actor, singer and cook Axel Fernandez Martini no Molina.

Grynszpancholc also represents Latin America for nine years in ICCCPO (International Confederation of Parents of Children with Cancer); an institution that claims the most comprehensive aid program focus on prevention when prophylactic measures for disease in children “are not possible.” In that sense, they emphasize that the focus should be on early diagnosis, containment and appropriate therapy.

“We need to make in the coming years, every February 15, all dress in white America to show their support to children with cancer and that beyond the socioeconomic conditions of residence and place everyone can access them rights: a treatment in a timely manner, within the best conditions of care, “concluded Grynszpancholc.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is investigating an increase in cases of narcolepsy in Finland may be related to a vaccine against influenza A, that body donated to 18 countries, including three American. The disorder is a pathological condition that occurs in the affected access irresistible sleep at any time.

The Government of Finland reported that are occurring cases of narcolepsy among vaccinated against influenza between 4 and 19 years, said WHO representative Gregory Hart, which indicated that those affected receive the vaccine “Pandemics” Manufacturer Galax.

In Helsinki, the National Institute of Health and Welfare of Finland (THL) published a study showing that the H1N1 flu vaccine Pandemics, manufactured by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, multiplies the risk of childhood narcolepsy.

“The observed association is so obvious that it is unlikely that other factors may fully explain this phenomenon,” the investigators said in a statement.

According to the research, between 2009 and 2010 were diagnosed 60 cases of narcolepsy in Finnish children and adolescents between 4 and 19 years, of which 52 (almost 90%) had been vaccinated against the H1N1 virus with the preparation Pandemics.

The phenomenon led the Finnish health authorities to stop using this vaccine as a preventive measure to determine their possible side effects.

WHO representative in Geneva said that Pandemics is a monovalent, i.e., that only carries the H1N1 influenza virus. Hart said that other vaccines used in the flu season and have the seasonal flu virus have not caused problems.

On the other hand, said he also has been reported of narcolepsy in two other Nordic nations, Sweden and Iceland, but that “in these two countries, unlike in Finland, it is unclear whether the victims were immunized with this vaccine.”

“We welcome the transparency shown by the Government of Finland to quickly disclose these cases from narcolepsy,” said the representative.

Harlot acknowledged that WHO donated 36 million doses of vaccine, “Pandemics” to 18 developing countries, but said so far, “we have not heard of who have been cases of narcolepsy.”

The list of countries receiving “Pandemics” is the following: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, North Korea, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, Philippines, Tajikistan, Togo, Rwanda, Kenya, Mongolia and Senegal.