Okonjo-Iweala: I almost lost my son to typhoid — but my cousin didn’t make it Posted on December 6, 2017 by admin Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi and Nigeria’s first female finance minister, shared her personal experience with typhoid while announcing new funding for typhoid conjugate vaccines Her cousin died of typhoid, and her son nearly died Post navigation Typhoid: Two children die‚ 60 ill after drinking from contaminated streamMisdiagnosis: Trouble as almost everybody ‘tests positive to typhoid, malaria’