The Max Foundation is an organization dedicated to increasing access to
treatment care and support for people living with cancer around the world.
You know, I have been working in cancer for 20 years. I come to this as a
caregiver of my stepson, Max. The one thing people want if you ask
anyone when they are facing cancer: they want to make sure that their loved one
can have access to treatment, no matter where they live.
The Max Global Experience is an opportunity for us to bring partners and
supporters closer into our work. We want them to get the chance to see firsthand
how they can make a difference in the lives of cancer patients.
Within our organization, if we look at the demographics of our patients, most of our
patients are from Africa. When you put your feet down in African soil, you can
feel the vibration of life traveling through your body. We wanted our partners
to come here and experience that because then they know we have to change it.
Not for the 5,000 patients we are currently helping, but for the 10,000 15 or 20,000
we are currently not reaching.
My name is Ahmed Awad. Once I know that I'm a cancer patient I asking myself am I
asking God – I looked to the sky, "Why me?" I was 24 years old I am so young…so I'm asking
myself, "Why me? What I did in my life why my life stop now?"
My name Bahija Gouimi.
My name is Hiba Ennachet.
I was very afraid to lose my family and
especially my kids because they are everything in my life.
I remember they start crying and they, you know, cancer is death and mom will go.
My name is Gershon from Ghana.
If it's leukemia, nothing, no amount of money would save me.
So I left myself that I should die. That is basically what I did.
Sometimes, you want to give up but when I see that the first box,
this is, for me, it's not only box of tablets or pills or medication.
For me, it's the future.
I tried it and within a certain short time – I think two weeks or so – I started
feeling better: the joint pains, everything started becoming normal.
That day, I said, "Hi! This medicine is going to work for me."
Partnerships are critical to the work that we do. When we work together with
partners, we learn more, we advance more, we increase our opportunities,
and we have definitely better outcomes for patients everywhere.
Our partnership with The Max Foundation has been truly a transformational
experience for both organizations. It began over 15 years ago with a concept
of providing access to a breakthrough medicine for CML in the low-income world –
something that had never really been done before. And since that time, we have
both continued to learn to work together to reach more patients. Actually more
than 75,000 people have benefited from the partnership.
We got a call from The Max Foundation, probably over a decade ago, to donate some product.
We did so once we learned who Max is and what they were about and then over time we got on
the phone and had more conversations about what they were doing and it really
became an inspiration and a challenge for our company to be able to assist
them as an NGO pioneering the pharma space.
Cepheid and The Max Foundation: it's a little bit of a match made in heaven
from my point of view, because I think the goals of the two organizations are
are the same. It's allowing everyone in the world, no matter what their
financial status is or where they live, to have access to the diagnostics and
the drugs that can help them. It really comes down to accessibility.
These people are people. They're not just patients, they are not their disease, they
are not the place they're from. They all have the same dreams that I do. They all
have the same hopes that I do, they all the same fears that I do.
They just want more time with their family.
I love my my family and I am very very
happy to have them because they supports me,
they give me much love, we laugh about our cancer. But I am very real friend
with my cancer because it allows me to see the life and to see other people and
to see how amazing is my life
The Max Foundation do unity and hope in the face of cancer.
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