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The need for improved zeal for political commitment, through high-level advocacy and awareness creation, for NTDs visibility

How Elephantiasis ruined three generations of a family When Asiru Bukola was a young girl, she dreamt of becoming a nurse and her rich businesswoman mother was willing to see this come through. But Asiru caught a troubling disease that would ruin both mother and child and severely affect a third generation of the family. When Asiru Bukola (not real name) was 15, she loved swimming in a body of water close to her home in Ibadan. Until one day, she experienced a strange itching sensation on her l...