Support The Hatuey Project’s new campaign to provide medicines for Cuban children with leukemia and lymphoma

Did you know that the 5-year survival rate of childhood leukemia is over 90% with the right medications? The Hatuey Project has launched a new campaign to raise $75,000 to provide medicines for Cuban children with Leukemia and other cancers to help Cuban doctors overcome the crippling effects of the U.S. blockade. Cuban children and Cuban doctors need our help.

Conditions in Cuba have become increasingly difficult over the past few months. Sixty years of an inhumane blockade and an additional two years of being falsely listed as a State Sponsor of Terror by the US State Department has resulted in recent shortages of food, fuel, and essential medicines.

Organizers of the Hatuey Project met with Cuban doctors and nurses at Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Hospital in Havana, at the José Luis Miranda Pediatric Hospital in Santa Clara, and with the Institute of Hematology and Immunology in Havana, where they learned that doctors have been unable to purchase much-needed medications and materials.

Despite the incredible medical advances made by the Cuban medical system, the United States Blockade prevents doctors from accessing basic, life-saving medications for children.

In this video Dr. José Valdez, the director of the oncology department at Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Hospital, tells about the problems he and his patients face:

In Cuba, there are medications that could be purchased in third countries but when they have some U.S. component, Cuba is not allowed to buy them.

This means that sometimes we do not have the ideal or indicated medications for the specific illness of the child. We use an alternative, which does not give the same result. It is the children that pay the price for this needless policy.

While we continue to fight to end the US Blockade against Cuba and to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List, the people of the United States can stand in solidarity with the Cuban people through material support.

Donate to The Hatuey Project. The Hatuey Project is a project of The People’s Forum, a non-profit public charity exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; as such, all donations are tax-deductible. All proceeds go to providing material aid. The Hatuey Project delivers the medicines through export licenses granted by the U.S. Commerce Department.