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Afrophilia: Jill Seaman, 2009 MacArthur Fellow

Posted by CareTaker on October 2, 2009
Filed in: Africa, Afrophilia, Career, Sudan, USA

Jill Seaman, one of newly announced MacArthur Fellows for 2009, is a physician committed to delivering and improving treatment for infectious diseases endemic to Southern Sudan. She first began treating the Nuer tribespeople of Sudan’s Western Upper Nile province in 1989, as an epidemic of visceral leishmaniasis — a deadly, parasite-borne infection — devastated the already conflict-ravaged and malnourished population.


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