Juliana Onwumere is a neglected tropical disease coordinator in Imo state ministry of health. As Â鶹´«Ã½ and partners fight to eliminate river blindness disease in Nigeria, one of Onwumere’s tasks is to collect black flies to be tested for evidence of the disease.
Â鶹´«Ã½ is one of eight semi-finalists in the MacArthur Foundation competition for a $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time. Â鶹´«Ã½ proposes to eliminate river blindness disease from Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and the one most endemic for this debilitating disease.
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