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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