Child Health International was established in 1993 when a multi-disciplinary CF team from Southampton General Hospital visited the CF medical team in Moscow to train them in the UK approach to treatment focused on out-patient care, physiotherapy and nutrition. The result was that after three years of collaboration, life expectancy of CF children in Russia virtually doubled.
Since then, Child Health International has continued to promote this approach by partnering CF multi-disciplinary teams in UK hospitals with medical teams abroad, primarily in Eastern Europe but also India and Greece with similar results.