Sidney Chahonyo, Chair of Childhood Cancer International – Africa Regional Committee, shared a post by Caroline Chukwu, Oncology Nurse Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, adding:
“This week, I travelled from Nairobi to Lagos to join like-minded individuals from different disciplines—but all with one goal.
To increase quality of care, quality of life, and improve childhood cancer outcomes across Africa.
Government. Civil society. Medical institutions. Survivors. Parents. Researchers. Sponsors.
We all came as one. To network. To discuss challenges. To identify solutions we can work on together—as one Africa.
Because where you live should not determine if you live.
As Chair of Childhood Cancer International – Africa Regional Committee, and as a survivor representative sitting on the Childhood Cancer International (CCI)Global Board, I see every day what is possible when we unite. And as someone with lived experience who represents Hope for Cancer Kids (HCK) and many other civil society organizations with the same goals and challenges I know the urgency.
The solution is complex. Not medicine OR community. Not research OR advocacy. All of it. Together.
Across Africa, we learn from each other. What works in Kenya can be adapted in Ethiopia. A parent group in Nairobi mentors one in Lilongwe. Survivors in Lagos teach survivors in Accra.
Cross-country collaboration. Civil society rising together. Africa learning from within Africa.
If we work in silos, children die. If we walk as one village, children live.
That is our promise. Starting now. Starting here. Starting with us. Because WHERE you live should not determine IF you live!
— Sidney Misigo Chahonyo
Childhood cancer survivor of 21+ years.”
Quotting Caroline Chukwu‘s post:
“This is one of the major highlight of International Society of Paediatric Oncology – SIOP Africa 2026. This powerful message from Sidney Chahonyo, reinforce the urgency of improving outcomes for children with cancer especially across Africa.
I’m glad to have been part of International Society of Paediatric Oncology – SIOP Africa Congress 2026.”
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