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Prof Stella Anyangwe: Polio ambassador who won't stop until disease is eradicated

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Prof Stella Anyangwe.[Mercy Kahenda, Standard]

"I do not want to wake up in the morning and hear news of a polio case in Africa. I come from Cameroon, and I saw more children paralysed and some could not go to school. They resorted to begging on streets," narrates Prof Stella Anyangwe.

Anyangwe is a physician, epidemiologist and a past District Governor of Rotary International's D9400.

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