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Yinka Jegede-Ekpe was born on 1978 in Nigeria, is a Nigerian HIV/AIDS activist. Discover Yinka Jegede-Ekpe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?
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HIV/AIDS Activist |
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46 years old |
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1978 |
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1978 |
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Nigeria |
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Niger
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Yinka Jegede-Ekpe Height, Weight & Measurements
At 46 years old, Yinka Jegede-Ekpe height not available right now. We will update Yinka Jegede-Ekpe's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Yinka Jegede-Ekpe Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Yinka Jegede-Ekpe worth at the age of 46 years old? Yinka Jegede-Ekpe’s income source is mostly from being a successful Activist. She is from Niger. We have estimated Yinka Jegede-Ekpe's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Yinka Jegede-Ekpe (born c. 1978) is a Nigerian HIV/AIDS activist.
After being diagnosed as HIV-positive, she became the first Nigerian woman to publicly announce her status.
She experienced discrimination and set up the Nigerian Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS organisation to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
In the early 2000s, Jegede-Ekpe decided to make her HIV-positive status public, which at the time was a controversial course of action.
She was the first Nigerian woman to do this.
She experienced discrimination and was shunned by friends and colleagues fearful of HIV/AIDS: her choir refused to sing with her any more; she was studying medicine at Wesley Nursing School and the administration pressed her to stop.
However, she continued to study and graduated as a nurse in 2001.
Jegede-Ekpe became an activist raising awareness of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and set up the Nigerian Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS organisation.
The organisation aimed to transmit information and to help the voices of women to be heard.
It planned to set up funds to help women in crisis and to educate orphans.
She commented later that "when people like myself come out, you see the faces of the epidemic for the first time. I'm not a fact or figure. And they can see that people like me can live a normal life".
Jegede-Ekpe became a consultant for UNICEF and in 2001 the organisation helped her to access antiretroviral drugs for her own health after a friend was shocked by her weight loss.
She married a fellow campaigner who is also HIV-positive.
As of 2004, nearly 6 percent of the Nigerian population (7 million people) had HIV/AIDS and 75 percent of all HIV-positive Africans aged between 15 and 24 were female.
Speaking at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, Jegede-Ekpe remarked that the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria would not be solved until women and men were treated equally.
In 2004, Jegede-Ekpe won a Reebok Human Rights Award for her work on HIV/AIDS awareness.
In 2006, she gave birth to a healthy HIV-negative baby.
When she was 19 and living in the city of Ilesa, Nigeria, Jegede-Ekpe was concerned by rashes on her body and decided to take a blood test.
She then found out that she was HIV-positive.
After the blood test for her boyfriend (her only sexual partner) came back negative, she remembered a visit to a dentist who worked in unsanitary conditions and assumed she had come into contact with contaminated blood.
In 2006, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, who tested HIV-negative.
