Juliet Ibrahim Named World Kidney Cancer Day Global Ambassador
Posted on April 7, 2017
AISHA ABUBAKAR
Screen sweetheart Juliet Ibrahim has been named the Global Ambassador of the 1st-ever World Kidney Cancer Day by the International Kidney Cancer Coalition, IKCC.
The announcement was made via the IKCC Twitter page on the first day of the 7th International Kidney Cancer Coalition conference which the actress cum philanthropist 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 22 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.