Onyinye Jane Onyemaechi
First Moscow State Medical University, Russia
Biography
Onyinye Jane Onyemaechi is a 5th year medical student at First Moscow State Medical University I.M Sechenov, Russia. She is a member of Build Africa Capacity and also she is the president of Association of Nigerian Scholarship students in Russia. In 2011, she was awarded scholarship for her astounding academic excellence to study medicine in Russia. Her interest in tropical medicine grew with her increasing desire to help eradicate malaria. She has been a part of research programs, one of which resulted in the abstract “Evaluating the prevalence of drug resistance in intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy”. She understands how to successfully fight for malaria eradication and collective efforts are vital and hopes made people to get inspired to make contributions towards achieving malaria eradication.