She is on a visit to New York at the invitation of the US-based Children’s Cancer and Blood Fund.
At an annual charity meeting of the Fund to be held on 1 November,
Leyla Aliyeva will be presented with Key to Life award for active
participation in humanitarian projects related children.
Founded in 1952 and being one of the larges and oldest charity
organizations of the United States, Children’s Cancer and Blood Fund
aims to to support the comprehensive clinical care of children living
with blood disorders, foster research to help understand the causes of
childhood blood disorders and sponsor the fellowship training of
pediatricians of the subspecialty of pediatric hematology and oncology.
As part of a visit to New York, Leyla Aliyeva visited Weill Cornell
Medical Center at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the leading
centers for treatment of pediatric cancer and blood diseases, and got
familiar with the services offered by the institution. Aliyeva visited
children receiving treatment at the Center, congratulated them on
occasion of Halloween and presented them with gifts.
Aliyeva also spoke to medical staff of the Center and got interested in
treatment of thalassemia patients and the care towards them. She said
that in Azerbaijan, where one out of 12 is infected with this genetic
blood disorder, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation implements programs to help
prevent spread of this disease and Thalassemia Center has been created
in Baku to this end.
Talking to Patricia Giardina, head of the thalassemia program at the
Weill Cornell Medical Center, researcher, Leyla Aliyeva expressed her
desire to organize a scientific symposium on inherited blood diseases in
Azerbaijan and invited the scholar to participate in this symposium and
exchange opinion with Azerbaijani scholars.
The meeting Leyla Aliyeva held in research laboratory created at the
Center with the support of the Children’s Cancer and Blood Fund also
focused on joint thalassemia researches. Head of the Cellular Oncology
Program David Lyden briefed Aliyeva on outcomes of researches conducted
by the laboratory and noted that know-how obtained in the field of
pediatric hematology and oncology in short time has facilitated
treatment of this kind of diseases to a great degree. Aliyeva exchanged
views with Lyden over possibilities of scholars from Azerbaijan to
conduct joint research here.
Leyla Aliyeva held a number of other meetings as part of a visit to New York.
She discussed signing of a memorandum of understanding between Earth
Force, US-based non-governmental organization, and IDEA with the
official of the US NGO for international affairs Vince Meldrum and
holding courses on environmental protection for high school teachers in
Azerbaijan.
Aliyeva invited Earth Force representatives to participate in a camp
'Role of youth in management of environmental protection: Today and
tomorrow' to be held by IDEA in Gabala town of Azerbaijan on 24-27
November.
Aliyeva also met with representatives of Ecouterre project, which
supports ecologically clean production in the field of fashion and
clothing, and exchanged views on initiatives calling on world youth to
be responsible about the global environment.
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