title: Paediatric cancer care in a limited-resource setting: Children's Welfare Teaching Hospital, Medical City, Baghdad.
abstract: There has been a lot of news coming out of Iraq in recent decades, but most of it ignores the situation for people on the ground: ordinary men, women and children who continue trying to live their lives in spite of wars, economic sanctions, violence, and social, political and cultural collapse. The challenges of maintaining and sustaining health in an environment where everything-the human spirit, education and health care systems and the health-sustaining infrastructures of housing, water purification and the electric grid-is damaged or broken are enormous.
authors.affiliation: Oncology Unit, Children's Welfare Teaching Hospital, Medical City complex, Bab Almoaddam, Baghdad, Iraq; Baghdad Resolve: An International Collaboration to Improve Cancer Care in Iraq.
authors.forename: Salma A Naji
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Al-Hadad
authors.affiliation: Oncology Unit, Children's Welfare Teaching Hospital, Medical City complex, Bab Almoaddam, Baghdad, Iraq; Baghdad Resolve: An International Collaboration to Improve Cancer Care in Iraq.
authors.forename: Mazin Faisal Farhan
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Al-Jadiry
authors.affiliation: Baghdad Resolve: An International Collaboration to Improve Cancer Care in Iraq; 40 Valley St, Northampton, MA 01060, USA.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lefko
keywords: Iraq; cancer; children; social determinants of health