Stories

  • Meet Max Partner Physician – Professor Babatunde Duduyemi

    Meet Max Partner Physician – Professor Babatunde Duduyemi

    Introducing Professor Babatunde Duduyemi in Freetown, Sierra Leone who's partnered with The Max Foundation for three years.

  • Meet the Max Team – Cynthia

    Meet the Max Team – Cynthia

    Get to know Cynthia, our Program Officer for Mexico, Central America & Caribbean since 2011.

  • A Farmer’s Journey Through the Cost of Cancer Care in India

    A Farmer’s Journey Through the Cost of Cancer Care in India

    For Narayan, a cancer diagnosis brought significant financial strain to a farming family navigating making a living from the land.

  • Breast Cancer Has No Geography or Gender

    Breast Cancer Has No Geography or Gender

    Across every region where we have launched breast cancer treatment programs, men are among the recipients of treatment.

  • Behind Patient Access: The Pharmacist Keeping Hope Moving in Nepal

    Behind Patient Access: The Pharmacist Keeping Hope Moving in Nepal

    For more than 15 years, Surya Narayan Gainju has been one of the people working behind the scenes to help patients at Patan Hospital in Nepal recei...

  • The Long Road to Cancer Treatment

    The Long Road to Cancer Treatment

    Cancer is complicated. For many patients, the path from first symptom to effective treatment is a long and difficult one. Germán experienced a lot ...

  • Staff Perspectives: 25 Years of Access to Cancer Treatment & Hope

    Staff Perspectives: 25 Years of Access to Cancer Treatment & Hope

    Through the voices of some of our longest-serving team members, we look back at The Max Foundation’s decades-long cancer treatment access partnersh...

  • The Impact of Partnerships on Patients

    The Impact of Partnerships on Patients

    This year, we’re celebrating 25 years of partnership with Novartis. Together, we’ve provided access to treatment for more than 100,00 people living...

  • Meet Max Partner Physician – Dr. Aitbu Amankulova

    Meet Max Partner Physician – Dr. Aitbu Amankulova

    Introducing Dr. Aitbu Amankulova from Kyrgyzstan! She has worked as an oncologist-hematologist for more than 10 years and has been a Max partner ph...

  • Max and Novartis Mark 25 Years of Access Innovation for Cancer

    Max and Novartis Mark 25 Years of Access Innovation for Cancer

    In 2001, The Max Foundation partnered with the pharmaceutical corporation Novartis to develop an international treatment access program for people ...

  • Shining a Light on Makhauhelo’s Gratitude

    Shining a Light on Makhauhelo’s Gratitude

    Makhauhelo’s life has been full of ups and downs since being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). She remembers the fear of not hav...

  • From Lived Experience to Purpose: How Rushmie Supports Her Community in Sri Lanka

    From Lived Experience to Purpose: How Rushmie Supports Her Community in Sri Lanka

    When Rushmie was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in 2004, she never imagined that the experience would one day shape how she showed u...