Cure Kids
When you select Cure Kids as your charity of choice you are giving children living with life-threatening illnesses hope. Cure Kids is the face of the Child Health Research Foundation. Over the last 30 years Cure Kids has dedicated millions of dollars to funding medical research for children with life-threatening illnesses. By better understanding these illnesses we can help improve the everyday lives of seriously-ill children and one day, find the cures that we all hope for. But it takes money – and lots of it to find these cures.
World First Breakthroughs:
Cure Kids has helped fund research which includes world-first breakthroughs into:
- childhood leukemia
- cot death
- hole-in-the-heart babies
- cystic fibrosis
- genetic birth abnormalities
The findings from these projects and others have saved thousands of children’s lives; lives that would have otherwise been lost. For thousands of other children, Cure Kids-funded research has helped create a longer and better quality of life.
Over $14 Million has been invested in vital medical research including:
- Cystic Fibrosis – nearly 400 New Zealanders suffer from this incurable lung disease
- Childhood Leukaemia - childhood cancer is the leading cause of death in children after accidental death in New Zealand
- Pneumonia – NZ has the highest hospital admission rate for childhood pneumonia in the western world. It costs the country $7million p.a
- Perinatal Research – Care for pre-term babies costs $50million + per annum
- Asthma in Children – the biggest cause of hospital admissions in New Zealand, 550,000 school days lost each year to asthma
- Genetic Research - 1 in 30 babies born in NZ will have some genetic birth malformation
- Heart Disease - over 600 babies are born with heart defects each year – at least 300 will need corrective surgery – Cure Kids is funding research into a genetic heart disease that claims at least 40 lives a year
- Type 1 Diabetes - Over 200 new children are diagnosed each year. It costs an estimated $1,000,000 to manage a Type 1 Diabetes child including the secondary complications in later life
- Kidney Disease – a kidney transplant costs between $80,000 to $110,000, we’re funding new research that will hopefully improve the lives of these children with kidney disease
Today, Cure Kids are more committed than ever to help find answers to the many cruel, life-threatening illnesses that devastate the lives of young children and their families.
You can help Cure Kids turn research into hope for the thousands of children and families out there who suffer from life-threatening illnesses, by participating in one of our events, remember it only takes twelve clicks of the mouse button, and three minutes on the web to do this.
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