Cancer

With over 100,000 applicants from 199 countries, Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, a Ghanaian oncologist nurse, has won the 2025 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award and a $250,000 prize money.
15-year-old Ethiopian student, Heman Bekele has invented a soap that could treat and prevent multiple forms of skin cancer.

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