Hi! We are the founders of Kids for World Health, and we are asking you to help us make a difference of Life for kids like us and their families on the continent of Africa!
We believe that with your help, kids' voices throughout the world will be heard and can bring about important changes in the availability of treatments for all people.

Getting sick is never a good thing! But at least we live where medicines can help us feel better. For thousands, even millions of Africans, getting a disease means death, because the right medicines or treatment opportunities are often not available. One such disease, Sleeping Sickness or Trypanosomiasis, is 100% fatal without treatment, causing thousands of people to die each year. The saddest thing is that the medicines needed in Africa are available in other parts of the western world. How would it feel to be sick and to know that someone in the world has a cure, but you can't have it? Let's say you live in Africa and have contracted Sleeping Sickness or one of the six most "neglected" diseases. Medicines may not be available to you living in Africa because:

1. The drugs are too expensive for you to afford! (Some drugs made by pharmaceutical companies in the US and Europe cost more than a person in Africa earns in a lifetime!) 2. The drug may not even be made anymore! (Companies may have decided not to make the life-saving drug because it is not profitable to make the drugs or they are not useful to western world populations!) 3. Some older drugs exist, but since they can be dangerous, you have a 1 in 20 chance that their side effects are going to kill you. (But then that's better than no treatment at all!) 4. Very little money is put into research for new and better medicines. (Of the total budget used for research of global diseases, only 10% is devoted to conditions that account for 90% of the global disease burden, almost all of which is in developing countries.) 5. You may live in a rural village and no one but your family may know that you are sick. (There are no medical centers nearby and there is no education about disease.)

Kids for World Health cannot tolerate the neglect of our fellow human beings in the poorer countries of the world, nor can we accept the unnecessary deaths of thousands, even millions…of children and their families each year on the continent of Africa and worldwide, due to the very limited access of drugs and treatments. We, as a group, take a stand to voice our opinions, to raise awareness of neglected disease, to help raise funding, and to act as a concerned group of youth and supporters across our globe.  We feel strongly that “Life is important for all people of the world, rich or poor."

We hope that you will move through our website to understand how you and your families, friends, and classmates can make a direct difference ...and have some good times doing it! We believe that together, we can bring about change and give others a better chance at Life.

Join us today!

^{Kids for World Health is a 501{C3} not-for-profit organization.}