During the first year, culturally-tailored model programs will be tested, adapted and rolled-out in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Jordan, Mexico, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates. A program manager will work in each country to implement this grassroots initiative. Komen will support the global expansion program with US$3 million in this first phase alone. The modules have been adapted for cultural sensitivity in each country and will develop into institutional knowledge that will be sustainable long into the future. Komen has tapped the Institute of International Education to be the implementing partner in this program.

Public education and awareness initiatives lead to earlier breast cancer detection, when the disease is most treatable, said Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It is time to help create infrastructures around the world that can further the global breast cancer movement and save more lives.

The announcement was made during Komen for the Cure###s historic Ignite the Promise: Global Advocate Summit, a first-of-its-kind meeting in Budapest, Hungary bringing together breast cancer activists from five continents.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world###s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. For more information about Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit http://www.komen.org.