About the WCCF

Best practice

Our guiding principle is that the knowledge, expertise and specialisation gained in high income countries – their best-practice models - should be shared and transferred to low income countries. There is no need for these countries to struggle to develop their own treatment methods when successful approaches are there to be adopted.

There are already good examples of successful and sustained collaboration with twinning programs. In a twinning program, a center of excellence in child cancer like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the USA forms partnerships with a unit in a low income country, such as Hospital Bloom in El Salvador, to transfer knowledge, share personnel, provide resources and plan for a sustained future.