Olikoye Ransome-Kuti

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti an haife shi ne a Ijebu Ode a ranar 30 ga watan Disamban shekarar 1927, a cikin jihar Ogun ta yanzu, Nijeriya. Mahaifiyarsa, Cif Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, shahararriyar mai rajin siyasa ce kuma mai rajin kare hakkin mata, kuma mahaifinsa, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, wani Furotesta minista kuma shugaban makarantar, shi ne shugaban farko na ƙungiyar Malaman Najeriya .  Dan uwansa Fela ya girma ya zama mashahurin mawaƙi kuma ya kafa Afrobeat, yayin da wani ɗan'uwansa, Beko, ya zama fitaccen likita da ɗan gwagwarmaya na duniya. Ransome-Kuti ta halarci Makarantar Grammar ta Abeokuta, Jami’ar Ibadan da kuma Kwalejin Trinity ta Dublin (1948–54). Shola Adenekan, "Olikoye Ransome-Kuti: He Broke the Silence Surrounding HIV/Aids in Nigeria and Highlighted the Country's Plight" , The New Black Magazine.

 Ayyuka 
Ya kasance likitan gida a General Hospital, Lagos . Ya kasance babban malami a jami'ar Legas daga shekara ta 1967 zuwa shekara ta 1970 sannan ya nada Daraktan kula da lafiyar yara a kwalejin koyon aikin likitanci ta jami'ar ta Legas sannan ya zama shugaban sashin kula da lafiyar yara daga shekara ta 1968 zuwa shekara ta 1976. Ya kasance farfesa a likitan yara a Kwalejin Magunguna, Jami'ar Legas har sai da ya yi ritaya a 1988.   Ya yi aiki a matsayin babban jami'in gidan jami'in a Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, da kuma matsayin locum a Hammersmith Hospital a shekarun 1960s.

A shekarun 1980, ya shiga gwamnatin Janar Ibrahim Babangida a matsayin ministan lafiya. A cikin shekarar 1983 tare da wasu Nigeriansan Nijeriya biyu, ya kafa ɗayan manyan ƙungiyoyi masu zaman kansu na kiwon lafiya - ƙungiyar Kula da Lafiya ta Iyali ta Nijeriya da ta fi damuwa da tsarin iyali da ayyukan kula da lafiyar yara a lokacin. A cikin shekara ta 1986, ya isar da labarin cutar ta farko a Nijeriya, yarinya 'yar shekara 14 da aka gano tana dauke da kwayar cutar HIV . Ya yi minista har zuwa  shekara ta 1992, lokacin da ya shiga Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya a matsayin Mataimakin Darakta-Janar.

Ya rike mukamai daban-daban na karantarwa, gami da ziyarar farfesa a makarantar Baltimore ta Johns Hopkins ta makarantar tsafta da kiwon lafiyar jama'a. Ya yi rubuce-rubuce da yawa don mujallu na likita da wallafe-wallafe. 

Ya lashe kyautar Leon Bernard Foundation  da lambar yabo ta Maurice Pate, a shekara ta 1986 da kuma shekara ta 1990 a jere. 

 Mutuwa 
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti ya mutu a ranar 1 ga Yunin shekara ta 2003. Ya bar matar sa da shekaru 50 Sonia da yara uku. 

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