Obioma Nwaorgu

Obioma Nwaorgu (an haife shi a shekara ta 1948) ƴar Najeriya ce kuma likitan dabbobi . Ita ce kwararriyar farfesa a jami'ar Nnamdi Azikiwe (wanda aka fi sani da Jami'ar Fasaha ta Jihar Anambra, sannan ta rabu da Jami'ar Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Jihar Enugu ). Ta yi karatu a Jami'ar Najeriya da Jami'ar Cambridge . Ana tunawa da Nwaorgu bisa binciken da ta yi na kawar da kwayoyin cuta masu alaka da cutar tsutsotsi ta Guinea da zazzabin cizon sauro da makanta kogi da zazzabin katantanwa . Ita ce jagorar mai bincike kan ayyukan bincike kan cututtukan wurare masu zafi guda goma sha biyu da Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya ta dauki nauyi. Nwaorgu kuma shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma shugaban gidauniyar mai zaman kanta ta Global Health and Awareness Research Foundation (GHARF), wacce ta ba da ilimin kiwon lafiya da horar da mata da matasa. Ta zama 'yar'uwar Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Najeriya a 2011, kuma ma'aikaciyar Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene na Landan.

 Rayuwar farko, ilimi da iyali 
An haifi Obioma Chebechi Okolo a shekarar 1948 a Najeriya.   Ta sami digiri na farko a fannin ilimin dabbobi a Jami'ar Najeriya, a Nsukka, Nigeria a 1973.   Ta ci gaba da karatunta a fannin dabbobi a Jami'ar Cambridge da ke Ingila.  A shekarar 1976 a cocin St Mark's da ke Cambridge, Okolo ya auri wani dalibi dan Najeriya Joseph "Joe" Goziem Nwaorgu, wanda ke karatun kula da gidaje a jami'ar.   Sun ci gaba da haihuwar yara hudu tare.  Nwaorgu ya sami digiri na uku a fannin ilimin parasitology a 1979. 

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 Koyarwa (1980-2023) 
A cikin 1980, an ɗauke Nwaorgu aiki a matsayin masanin ilimin halitta a sabuwar jami'ar fasaha ta jihar Anambra da aka kafa a Enugu,   Ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar sashen nazarin halittu daga 1981 zuwa 1982 kuma ta yi aiki a sashin kimiyyar halittu har zuwa 1983. Daga 1983 zuwa 1988, Nwaorgu ya kasance shugaban sashen parasitology da ilmin halitta.  An canza sunan Jami'ar Jihar Anambra a cikin 1991, zuwa Jami'ar Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Jihar Enugu,  kuma a cikin 1992 aka kafa Jami'ar Nnamdi Azikiwe da ke Awka lokacin da aka raba makarantar daga Jami'ar Jihar Enugu.  An sanya Nwaorgu a Jami’ar Nnamdi Azikiwe a lokacin.  Ta koma Boston, Massachusetts a cikin 1994 lokacin da aka ba ta lambar yabo ta Takemi Fellowship na shekara biyu daga Makarantar Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a ta Harvard .   Nwaorgu ya kasance abokin Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya a cikin shirin "Roll Back Malaria" daga 1999 har zuwa 2001.  Ta dawo a matsayin shugabar sashin ilimin parasitology a 2002 kuma ta yi aiki a wannan aikin har zuwa 2005.  Tun 2009, ta kasance darektan sashen makamashi da muhalli.  An ƙaddamar da Nwaorgu a matsayin ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Najeriya a 2011,   kuma shi ma ɗan'uwan Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene na London. 

Nwaorgu ya buga labarai sama da 40 a cikin mujallun da aka yi bita na ƙwararru game da lafiyar jama'a, ƙwayoyin cuta da cututtukan cututtuka .  Ɗaya daga cikin ayyukanta kan zazzabin cizon sauro ya sami alaƙa tsakanin kamuwa da cutar zazzabin cizon sauro da yawan ruwan sama da zafi. Domin ruwan sama yana kara ma sa yuwuwar sauro Anopheles na dauke da kwayar cutar ta Plasmodium falciparum wacce ke haifar da zazzabin cizon sauro, yawanci kamuwa da cuta yakan kai watanni daya zuwa biyu bayan faruwar ruwan sama. Wasu masana kimiyya sun tabbatar da bincikenta.  Ta ƙaddamar da shirye-shiryen sarrafawa guda uku a cikin Jihar Enugu don rage yawan Dracunculus medinensis (wanda aka fi sani da Guinea worms), Onchocerca volvulus, wanda ke haifar da makanta kogi, da Schistosoma (wanda aka fi sani da jini), wanda ke haifar da zazzabin katantanwa .    Yunkurin da ta yi kan tsutsotsin Guinea ya hada da bullo da sinadarai don kashe gurbatattun tafkunan da rage yawan kwarin da yaduwar cututtuka. Aikin kawar da gurbacewar, ya kuma hada da magani kyauta ga majinyata da ke dauke da cutar tsutsotsi ta Guinea. Ya ɗauki shekaru biyu kuma ya rage kamuwa da cuta daga 300,000 a 1986 zuwa kusan 170,000 ta 1988.  Nwaorgu shi ne babban mai bincike na ayyukan bincike kan cututtuka na wurare masu zafi guda goma sha biyu da Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya ta dauki nauyi kan kula da rigakafin cututtuka.  A cikin 2020, an zabe ta don jagorantar wani shiri na WHO, "Innovation Innovation in Health", wanda ya hada gwiwa da ma'aikatar lafiya don inganta isar da ayyukan kiwon lafiya. Manufar ita ce masu bincike su kai hari ga jama'a masu rauni, kamar al'ummomin karkara, mata, da yara, da kuma magance yadda ya fi dacewa don magance rage cututtuka masu yaduwa da samar da damar samun ingantaccen kiwon lafiya a duniya.  Shirin da Nwaorgu ya jagoranta an tsawaita shi a cikin 2022 zuwa wani wa'adin shekaru biyu,  bayan haka ta yi ritaya a 2023. 

 Shawarar mata da yara 
Nwaorgu ya kafa kuma ya jagoranci Gidauniyar Bincike ta Lafiya da Fadakarwa ta Duniya (GHARF) a Enugu a cikin 1995. Manufar kafa kungiyar ita ce samar da ilimin kiwon lafiya ga mata da matasa, musamman wadanda ke fama da talauci wadanda ba su da damar samun ilimi da ayyuka.  A madadin GHARF, Nwaorgu ya sami tallafi da yawa tsakanin 2000 zuwa 2009, daga abokan haɗin gwiwa a Amurka irin su Ford Foundation, da gidauniyar MacArthur don gudanar da taron karawa juna sani na kiwon lafiya da cutar kanjamau da kuma karawa juna ilimi a Najeriya.    A cikin 2008, an nada ta aiki har zuwa 2012, a cikin kwamitin farko na kungiyar Matan Afirka kan Kimiyya da Fasaha (AWFST).  Wannan dandalin wani shiri ne da cibiyar nazarin manufofin fasahar kere-kere ta Afirka ta kirkiro domin inganta shigar mata a fannin tsara manufofi, da wallafawa, da ci gaban kimiyya da fasaha.  Kwamitin gudanarwa na farko yana da wakilai daga kasashen waje, da kuma mambobi kamar su Afaf Marei da Manal Samra (Masar), RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah da Peggy Oti-Boateng (Ghana), Norah Olembo da Agnes Wakesho Mwang'ombe (Kenya), Mamolise Falatsa da kuma Deepaguullanithokka ( Ghana ). (Najeriya), Bitrina Diyamett (Tanzaniya) da kuma Nuhu Matovu (Uganda), duk ana daukarsu kwararru ne a fanninsu.  A cikin 2012, Mwang'ombe ya zama kujera kuma an zaɓi Nwaorgu a matsayin mataimakin shugaban AWFST.  Kungiyar mata ta Enugu ta karrama ta a shekarar 2023 saboda fafutukar kare hakkin dan Adam da kuma kokarin karfafa mata. 

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