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Breaking News Update: $2 million USAID grant to Ponseti International Association will improve access to clubfoot treatment

The Ponseti International Association will collaborate with partner organization Management Sciences for Health (MSH) on a two-year, nearly $2 million project to increase access to treatment of clubfoot deformity for thousands of children in Peru, Pakistan, and Nigeria.

Each year, 200,000 children worldwide are born with clubfoot, one every 3 minutes. There is no known cause for the condition and nearly 80 percent of children born with clubfoot live in impoverished countries, says Jose Morcuende, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and Chief Medical Director of Ponseti International Association. If untreated, children affected by this condition often grow up unable to walk, go to school, or significantly participate in their communities. They are often cast aside and regarded as useless members of society.

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