100 Women in Finance raises more than 2.6 Million HKD
On November 16, 2017 over 200 leaders from the financial services and alternative investment industry came out to support KLF in our mission and helped to raise vital funds to further extend our in-school vaccination program. The night proofed to be extremely successful and we are grateful to all the wonderful women of 100WF that […]
Look behind the scene
Sixteen young girls from the St. Stephen’s Girls’ College volunteered to support the Foundation in our work around the importance of prevention through HPV vaccination. The video shoot took place on November 9, 2017 and was a lot of fun for the girls as well as us! SSGC will be one of the schools participating […]
Healthy Matters
HPV vaccines back in stock in Hong Kong Recently, Karen Leung Foundation was featured an article in Healthy Matters. The article highlighted the current trends and practices surrounding HPV and Cervical Cancer prevention in Hong Kong. To find out more please see here.
Australian National Cervical Screening Program
Recently, the Department of Health in Australia took a big leap in improving women’s health and the prevention of cervical cancer. On the December 1, the Australian National Cervical Screening Program took place. The Pap test, which looks at abnormal cells from the cervical swab, was replaced with a Cervical Screening test, which tests for […]
Community Care Fund increases its coverage for HPV vaccination (Updated)
At the Karen Leung Foundation, we are constantly striving to fill the gaps of current medical services, and advocacy and lobbying is a big part of how we strive to better the health of women in Hong Kong. Last month, in March 2018, we attended the Cancer Strategy Meeting at the Legislative Council of Hong […]
New Year’s update on In-School Vaccination
Our in-school vaccination program, which is partially funded through the proceeds of the Sohn Hong Kong Investment Conference 2017, has been a great success so far. To date, we have provided the 1st dose of the HPV vaccine to a total of 826 students in seven schools in the New Territories of Hong Kong. A […]
Karen Leung Foundation launches promotion video to highlight the importance of women’s health in celebration of International Women’s Day
On March 8, 2020 we launched our new health promotion video to address the need for regular screening on all our social media platforms in celebration of International Women’s Day. The campaign ran the entire month of March in an effort to raise public awareness, with men and women alike, on the importance of women’s […]
Stories from Survivors Video Project!
We at Karen Leung Foundation are grateful and appreciative to all those who participated in our Stories from Survivors video project to raise awareness around cancer prevention. We want to send a heartfelt “thank you” to the survivors who shared their personal stories with us and the team behind this fantastic project. It takes courage to speak […]
Cervical Screening made easy with KLF
In the past two months, we provided free cervical cancer screening to over 90 women. Outreach was done via a Facebook campaign for which we received plenty of interest with more women being waitlisted for new screening dates. A Special Thanks to Medishine in partnering with KLF to provide this free screening service to Hong Kong women. Thank you also […]
Project Teal III
We are delighted to announce that Project Teal III, finally launches on June 1st, 2020. Project Teal is a health programme with multiple organisational partners and aims to decrease the incident rate of cervical cancer in Hong Kong women. So far, Phase I and II have offered cervical screening tests to over 300 underprivileged women. In this most […]