Bolivia: Celebrando la Vida. Asociación de Lucha Contra La Leucemia
Contact address:
Avenida Mutualista, Calle 23, No 3025
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, SCZ, Bolivia
Phone +591 70029100
Website address: www.facebook.com/celebrandolavidaScz/
E-Mail:
Key contacts:
Brenda Hurtado Wills (President)
Hilda Paz Ribera (Secretary of Conseil)
Brief description of organisation:
Non-for Profit Organization (NGO) representing patients of the CML (LMC) and families of patients affected, mainly in Santa Cruz Department, but including affected patients in the whole country of Bolivia - South America.
Mostly managed in Spanish also cover indigenous communities in the Highlands and Lowlands of Bolivia.
Key objectives and key initiatives:
Our key objectives are:
- Support and companion to new and existing patients affected by the CML since the initial diagnostic of the disease.
- Psychological and emotional support to the affected both patients and relatives.
- Public Awareness and public campaigns about the CML and another kind of similar diseases.
- Work in coordination and support with the Max Foundation at Bolivia.
- Works in Public Health policies in support of the CML affected communities and their relatives.
- Social control of the CML support health institutions, mainly governmental and the availability of medicines for the CML community; works with the Customs and Health authorities and also the medical, health community in support of all patients affected.
- All others activities related to the CML and the people that live with this health condition.
Members
82 (February 2018)