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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