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Youth-Run. Entirely.

Global Cure is a youth run non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness for disparities within healthcare. We aim to bring light to healthcare discrepancies that are present as a result of socioeconomic/sociocultural reasons and at the very same time, empower our youth to take their own action against such problems.

At Global Cure, we have three main goals: Awareness, Empowerment, and Action.

Empowerment: Mentor and guide students into starting their own chapters where they can initiate social media campaigns, and fundraising campaigns. At Global Cure, we hope to mentor these students into becoming leaders who will one day shape the healthcare landscape.

Awareness: We want to raise awareness regarding healthcare discrepancies that present both locally and also abroad. We hope to aid in the process of raising awareness against issues such as the opioid epidemic in Vancouver, malnutrition in Kenya, and clean water access worldwide.

Action: Global Cure has several high-school chapters throughout Canada, and each of these chapters launch to raise funds for public health issues in a data-driven manner. Furthermore, we also partnered up with organizations such as CHIUS and Global Health Initiative at UBC to systematically target public health problems such as malnutrition and clinics for impoverished populations in down-town eastside and indigenous people of Canada.

And our action is a culmination of our various projects, click our projects page to learn more.

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Partnering with the Global Health Initiative and Pamoja

Think Big. Act Bigger.

By the end of this past August, 361 families were identified by Pamoja and these families were surveyed to quantify their level of household food security. From these same households, body measurements from 434 children under the age of five were taken with supervision from their parent or head of household after full verbal and written consent were obtained. Height, weight, and age were recorded and used to measure chronic malnutrition. Preliminary analysis of the data revealed that the most apparent form of malnutrition was stunting (short for their age), with 23% of children meeting the criteria for stunting.

Eleven percent of children were underweight (low weight for their age) and 7% of children met the criteria for wasting (short for their weight). Based on their mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurements, 7 children were identified as acutely malnourished. Four of these seven children met the criteria for severe acute malnutrition. These children were referred immediately to appropriate health care services. By identifying and referring to children who need help on a real-time basis, their growth and health trajectory may be positively altered thus greatly impacting their quality of life.

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18%

of operation rooms are not functional as a result of under funding

11k

Average Canadian family pays nearly 11k in taxes yet many hospitals cannot accommodate all patients

400 million

people lack access to Healthcare world-wide

RECENT CAUSES

We run projects in 5 countries across 3 continents

Health Care Infrastructure

Child Healthcare

Disease Research and Assisting Medical Students

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Youth Engagement Conferences

Together we make all the difference

Medical Resume Review

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