African patients deserve African evidence.” “African patients deserve African evidence.” But until Joseph founded it in 2020, the country had no dedicated paediatric radiation oncology programme at all. “If you think about the fact that Nigeria has about 200 million people and there was no paediatric radiation oncology programme anywhere in the country, it might seem very daunting,” she says. The number of children needing radiation treatment is relatively small and what treatment there is tends to be discounted.