DANJUMA ADDA There’s a disease that kills a staggering 1.34 million people per year worldwide. It wipes more than two hundred thousand Africans off the face of the planet annually. More than four people die from it every second. It isn’t HIV, nor is it tuberculosis. It’s viral hepatitis. Sadly, people generally don’t know much …
The New Voices team sends its congratulations to 2020 Fellow Danjuma Adda, president-elect of the World Hepatitis Alliance. As a medical doctor and a person living with hepatitis, Dr. Adda is a powerful advocate for preventing noncommunicable diseases. Through the New Voices Fellowship, Dr. Adda has deepened his media and advocacy skills to shine a …
BY Danjuma Adda — The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded this week to three researchers who discovered the virus that causes hepatitis C. According to the announcement, “For the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hopes of eradicating hepatitis C virus from the world population.” New blood tests and …
Danjuma is a Nigerian prince and accomplished Public health expert on a mission to raise awareness about Hepatitis. Danjuma was infected with Hep B while in clinical rotations and then lost his own mother to the disease several years later. Even though Hepatitis kills more people per year than HIV/AIDS, it receives just a fraction of …