The International Kidney Cancer Coalition has named Juliet Ibrahim
of the Juliet Ibrahim Foundation the Global Ambassador of the 1st-ever
World Kidney Cancer Day.
The announcement was
made via their twitter page on the first day of the 7th International
Kidney Cancer Coalition conference which she is presently attending in
Warsaw, Poland.
The World Kidney Cancer Day
which will be an annual event was also launched at the conference and
the first edition will hold on the 22nd of June 2017.
The
Juliet Ibrahim Foundation (JIF) was launched in December 2011 to start
an awareness campaign about cancer of the kidney. The JIF is aimed at
helping Ghanaians, Nigerians and other West African citizens to know
their status and prevent kidney cancer as well as other kidney related
diseases from getting to the incurable stage.
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