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Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaBeyond making medicines – the role of Pharma | Lutz Hegemann, President Novartis Global HealthWith more than half of the people on the African continent not having access to basic essential medicines according to the World Health Organization resulting in an estimated one million deaths, the challenge of poor access to medicines will not be solved by one government or a single organization alone. There is only so much that any single organization can do and that is why partnership is so important. Pharma cannot simply reduce its contribution to the provision of medicines but need to care about the benefits to society at large. Pharmaceutical companies are a key partner in solving...2024-02-0123 minUtano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | The African Medicines Agency - what comes next with Chimwemwe Chamdimba#africa #health #clinicaltrials #decentralisedclinicaltrials #healthcare #globalhealth #medicines #vaccines #ama #africanmedicinesagency #ema #europeanmedicinesagency
30 October 2023 | Lenias Hwenda | The African Medicines Agency - what comes next | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Chimwemwe Chamdimba
The coming year in 2024 is going to be an exciting one according to Chimwemwe Chamdimba, the head of the Africa Regulatory Harmonization Initiative at AUDA NEPAD. Listen to find out why this is an exciting year for the African Medicines Agency. In this podcast, Chimwemwe explains what to expect in the coming months and key initiative that are on the horizon for the...2023-10-3049 minUtano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Can decentralised clinical trials work in Africa, expand diversity & global reach?#africa #health #clinicaltrials #decentralisedclinicaltrials #healthcare #globalhealth #medicines #vaccines
27 April 2023 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Craig Lipset. In this conversation, Craig Lipset discusses with Lenias Hwenda how decentralised clinical trials are being increasingly used in clinical research in Europe and the US and how they can help to expand diversity and reach during clinical trials if clinical investigators are intentional about design.
A clinical trial is a series of research studies that test new treatments before they are approved for people to use. Before national medicines regulators can approve a new treatment for use in people, clinical...2023-04-2839 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's talk about rare diseases in Africa14 March 2023 | Lenias Hwenda talks about rare diseases in Africa with Kelly du Plessis, the CEO of Rare Diseases South Africa. Rare diseases remain poorly understood by health authorities and yet they are increasingly affecting African populations. Kelly du Plessis explains some of the challenges with rare diseases in Africa and how her organisation, Rare Diseases South Africa has been solving these challenges in South Africa.2023-03-1337 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Why foreign aid for routine health care in Africa should end by 2030Have you ever wondered why foreign aid has persisted for so long? Dr Olusoji Adeyi, the President of Reilient Health Systems and a former Director at The World Bank explains the nuances of foreign aid and why it is counter-productive. Foreign aid has persisted in order to support a foreign aid industrial complex that has been built around aid. This complex is sustained for the benefit of those around it - the external contractors who's business is to but products for distribution in African countries. In fact most of the time bilateral aid is not fundamentally aimed at Africans...2022-11-1543 min
The View PointGlobal watch: Africa is facing a non-communicable disease time bomb – but we can defuse itGuest: Dr. Lenias Hwenda, Immunologist, Global Health Policy expert, Founder and CEO of Medicines 4 Africa]2022-10-0523 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | How big is the cancer burden in Africa and what governments should be doing about it.31 Aug 2021 | Lenias Hwenda | Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | The size of Africa´s cancer burden and what governments should do about it 2022-09-0102 min
EMJ GOLD: Pharma marketing, medical & moreS02 E16: Pharma in South Africa, access, pricing and reimbursementIn this episode, GOLD speaks to Lenias Hwenda, Founder and CEO, Medicines for Africa, and Alexander Natz, Secretary General, European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE). Following on from GOLD’s recent ‘Pharma in South Africa’ feature, Lenias explains what the implementation of South Africa’s new healthcare system will mean for global pharma, as well as exploring genomics and market access. Alexander discusses his interest in pricing and access of pharmaceuticals, shares how value-based reimbursement is evolving and offers his thoughts on the new EU Health Technology Assessment procedure. If you’re interested in learning more about th...2022-05-3148 min
Discovery Matters55. The injustice of disease burden and access to vaccinesThe pandemic has been a global issue, which has benefitted from the coming together of industry, pharma, academia, non-governmental and governmental support. What the pandemic has also brought into sharp focus is the global imbalance access to healthcare and health inequity between the Global North and Global South.
For this important conversation, we are joined by Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation about the current situation with HIV and TB in Africa, and the impact COVID-19 has had on patients already suffering from communicable diseases.
So, what can we...2022-05-2620 min
Discovery Matters55. The injustice of disease burden and access to vaccinesThe pandemic has been a global issue, which has benefitted from the coming together of industry, pharma, academia, non-governmental and governmental support. What the pandemic has also brought into sharp focus is the global imbalance access to healthcare and health inequity between the Global North and Global South. For this important conversation, we are joined by Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation about the current situation with HIV and TB in Africa, and the impact COVID-19 has had on patients already suffering from communicable diseases. So, what can we do? Lenias Hwenda, founder and...2022-05-2620 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda What's Wrong with Global Health - Perspectives of African WomenTo celebrate International Women’s Month, we are hosting a Live Podcast to explore explores the personal and professional experiences of high level professional African women working in global health. Recently, there have been growing calls amongst global health academics to decolonize global health in the leading medical journals like The Lancet and the British Medical Journal. The decolonization campaign seeks to fight against systems of dominance and power in the global health community of those working to improve the health of populations worldwide. Global health has its origins in the colonial era when it was a means to con...2022-03-131h 05
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | How Egypt, Togo and Malawi achieved lymphatic filariasis elimination22 Feb 2022 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | NTD Series This is how Egypt, Togo and Malawi achieved lymphatic filariasis elimination | Dr Didier Bakajika | WHO Technical Officer for Neglected Tropical Diseases (Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis) Dr Didier Bakajika talks to us about the challenge of lymphatic filariasis prevention and control and how countries like Egypt, Malawi and Togo that managed to achieve eliminated reached this milestone. He also explains the importance of data and how the WHO ESPEN programme is supporting countries to enable systematic data collection in order to enhance the effectiveness of prevention and control programs. Ov...2022-02-2447 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Three countries have eliminated lymphatic filariasis in Africa, and more are on the way#ntds #endtheneglect #neglectednotrare2022-02-1847 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | This is a big public health challenge you have never heard of - rabies and snakebite11 Feb 2022 | This is a big public health problem you have heard of - #snakebite and #rabies. They kill ten of thousands of people every year due to limited availability of antivenom and, rabies vaccine and immunoglobulins. Many victims live far away from health facilities and those who are luck enough to get to one often find that either the treatments they need are not available. This public health crisis is underpinned by limited global production of antivenin, immunoglobulins and rabies vaccine. Sanofi used to make an antivenin against 10 of Africa´s most poisonous snakes but stopped manufacturing it in 2014 b...2022-02-1158 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | The implications of the transition from pandemic to endemic phase for African Countries?04 February 2022 | South Africa has been offered a lot of vaccines, that it has turned down which has made donors very unhappy. "I don't think donors always understand that the logistics of each vaccine is different. Countries need time to gear up, so you can't have a shelf life of a month or two months to distribute a vaccine and get the cold chain properly in place, to be able to be responsible about the way you procure needles and syringes and to vaccinate people. It's not something you organise over a weekend." Dr Nicholas Crisp the Deputy Director General of...2022-02-041h 00
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | More Clinical Trials in Africa will Help Pharma Industry Increase Diversity and Inclusion28 January 2022 | What should African countries and the African Medicines Agency be doing to change a harmful dynamic driven largely by perceptions of the risks by sponsors and African people? African people think they are unethically targeted for clinical trials whilst sponsors of clinical trials fear that the risks of doing trials in African countries are much too high. If you consider that the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (#MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (#EMA) are both actively trying to increase their attractiveness and the number of clinical trials done within their borders then Africa certainly needs...2022-01-2859 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | With investment, we can eliminate schistosomiasis and other NTDs21 January 2022 | According to Dr Mwinzi Pauline, the technical officer for #ntds at World Health Organization Africa office, countries in #africa lost significant gains made in #schistosomiasis control due to the #Covid19 pandemic. We can prevent further erosion of these gains by stepping up investment in tackling #schistosomiasis and other #ntds . Some of the actions needed include collecting more accurate data, deepening engagement with communities and stepping up disease control and elimination efforts that are data driven and more targeted. Eliminating diseases of poverty is the best way to break the vicious cycle of poverty for communities around the world. It wo...2022-01-211h 03
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | We are close to eliminating sleeping sickness, but success is not a given30 December 2021 | Imagine a disease that affects 60 million people, with only 3 treatments, one of which kills 5% of the patients, and administration can only be done in hospital. Dr Philippe Neau and his colleagues in Sanofi, NGOs, WHO and governments are working to change the paradigm of treating sleeping sickness to improve the available treatments by bringing oral medicines that can be easily taken at community health facilities, with shorter courses without requirement for a lumbar puncture that can only be done in a hospital setting. Products with a better safety and efficacy profiles will also enable the prophalactic treatment and tre...2021-12-3058 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | This is what everyone should do to achieve health equity - not just in Africa, but globally21 Dec 2021 | Prof. Agnes Binagwaho is one of the best public health leaders coming out of Africa. She speaks from the experience of being one of the key architects of Rwandans healthcare system, which is one of the most equitable health systems globally. In this podcast, she shares many valuable insights that many public health leaders not just in Africa will do well to emulate. Prof. Binagwaho shares with us her reflections on whether healthcare for all is attainable, what must happen in order for it to be attained and the most critical elements to achieving it. For example, the...2021-12-2140 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | A biotech making unique diagnostics from plants adapted to the harsh Cape province 13 December 2021 | Africa has many existing biotech companies and CapeBio Technologies is one of them. The CEO of Capebio, Daniel Nima talks about how the biotech is harnessing unique ingredients, (enzymes) from the plants that have adapted to the harsh environment in South Africa´s Cape region to make diagnostics for detecting diseases, viruses and other infections. The plants in this region are unique and do not grow anywhere else in the world. This biotech is building a global business on the back of mother nature to fill a gap in diagnostics in African countries and empower scientists on the Af...2021-12-1358 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | An oral Covid vaccine and oral insulin presents huge potential to improve access in Africa | Nadav Kidron16 Nov 2021 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Titans of Industry | Oramed´s oral insulin and oral Covid vaccine are powerful innovations that could transform access dynamics in Africa | Nadav Kidron, President & CEO Oramed Pharmaceuticals
Oramed was recently given approval from SAHPRA to initiate a phase 1 clinical trials for insulin. This vaccine is oral and does not require injection which simplifies logistics, it does not need to be given by a health professional and it does not require additional medical consumables like needs and syringes, all of which reduces its cost significantly. The President and CEO of O...2021-11-1646 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | How to fix Africa´s growing pharmaceutical trade deficit | Stavros Nicolaou09 Nov 2021 | Africa´s largest pharmaceutical multinational corporation, Aspen, is a trailblazing company that has shown that you can occupy global leadership position out of Africa. In a fireside conversation with Lenias Hwenda, Stavros Nicolaou, a Senior Executive at Aspen Pharmacare lamented that the his observation that countries on the African continent have a problem with pharmaceutical manufacturing implementation. Africa does not have many companies that have achieved Aspen Pharmacare´s success because far too many African pharmaceutical companies have been mothballed over the years primarily due to the procurement dynamics that excludes African manufacturers from local and international markets. Afr...2021-11-041h 07
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | In Serving Humanity, Global Cooperation has its Limits9 September 2021 | After international mechanisms failed to meet the need of Africans in the Covid-19 pandemic, would Africa invest so much energy in multilateral mechanism or rather focus more on regional coperation? Dr John Nkengasong the Director of the Africa CDC answers this question.2021-10-291h 12
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Africans should be benefiting from the wealth and natural resources of their nations24 May 2021 | Lenias Hwenda: Let's Talk about Health in Africa - African people should be benefiting from the wealth and natural resources of their countries.
Lenias Hwenda in conversation with Honourable Minister Jay Naidoo, a former Minister for Reconstruction and Development, and the Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Broadcasting in the government of President Nelson Mandela. Many African countries have vast national wealth in the form of natural resources that belong to their citizens. Yet, African citizens have not benefited from the exploitation of these natural resources and Africa's claim to fame remains its singular unparalleled poverty which...2021-10-2930 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Africa CDC´s bold new public health order28 October 2021 | Post independent Africa has managed its public health according to the wishes of international development partners. This has resulted in health systems that are distorted towards infectious diseases partly to limit the threat that they pose to the West. The notion of health security global health took the perspective of limiting as much as possible the perceived threat that infectious diseases in Africa pose to Western countries. The neglect of security of the health of Africans has been more apparent during the Covid-19 pandemic in which companies have organised their supply chains in a manner that excluded African...2021-10-281h 13
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Implementing a pharmaceutical pillar into the Political Economy of Mauritius 26 October 2021 | In its recent budget, the government of Mauritius announced its plans to add a new pillar to its economy by establishing pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa. Aspen Global is leading private sector efforts to support the government put in place a framework for implementing this plan. Listen to Samer Kassem, the CEO of Aspen Global tell us more about this ground breaking work.2021-10-2651 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | The African Medicines Agency Achieved Ratification and Will Come Into effect before the end for 202114 October 2021 | For years now the third agency of the African Union that is working on public health, The AUDA-Nepad has been working on regulatory harmonisation for medicines across the African continent. The goal has always been to build towards establishing an African Medicines Agency to parallel the European Medicines Agency. The Treaty for establishing the African Medicines Agency has now achieved ratification and is expected to come into effect before the end of 2021. Listen to Michel Sidibe, the African Union Special Envoy to the African Union tell us more about these developments and their implications for the African continent.2021-10-1438 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Afrigen is one of the most exciting and innovative biotechnology companies coming out of AfricaThe WHO, the African Union and the Government of South Africa have partnered to establish Africa´s first mRNA hubs in Cape Town in South Africa. This collaborative initiative is being led by Professor Petro Terblanche, the Managing Director of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines. The company has built so many capabilities and has penetrated US andEuropean markets with its cannabinoids based products and it is formulating mRNA delivery systems, the only company in the Southern Hemisphere with this capability. Tune is to hear from Professor Terblanche about why this is the most t promising and most exciting African biotech c...2021-09-091h 07
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Sothema, an African pharmaceutical manufacturer has been making insulin and other biologics for 40 years 2 September 2021 | Africa has pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities that are not so well know because no one talks about these issues. This is why it might surprise some to discover that companies like Sothema have been making biologics like insulin on the African continent for 40 years and is now partnering with Sinopharm to make one of the few vaccines that are available and that have been issued emergency use authorisation. Madame Lamia Tazi the CEO and Chairwoman of the Board of Sothema in Morocco talked to us about the work of Sothema.2021-09-0239 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Government buy-in is key to preventing the implosion of Africa´s vaccine manufacturing businesses31 August 2021 | Governments, private sector and investors are all coming together to rally around the need to establish vaccine manufacturing on the African continent. The success of these efforts whenever depends on securing the market for vaccine manufacturing businesses. Professor Shabir Madhi, the Director of the Rubic Consortium which entered into a technology transfer agreement with Dyadic International tells us more about their plans to make a cost-effective vaccine at a fraction of the cost and what governments must do to secure the industry.2021-08-3151 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Every corrupt decision taken in Africa´s healthcare sector leads to a loss of life5 July 2021 | Corruptions seems to be accepted in many places as a normal part of life. Its quinces on the lives of ordinary people are devastating. Tune in to hear Allan Pamba the former CEO of Nairobi Hospital who found himself under tremendous undue pressure from his board for Directors to make decisions that would ultimately prove harmful to the patients in the instition´s care. 2021-07-051h 22
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | If we are serious about fixing Africa´s problems, let's act.28 June 2021 | There is a lot of talk about what is wrong with Africa, but what exactly are the steps that Africa leaders and African people should be taken to correct these challenges and put Africa on the right course? President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim addresses these questions in this conversation.2021-06-281h 03
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Africa must manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients to achieve true security of access24 June 2021 | LaGray Chemical Company owned by Dr Alexandra Graham and Dr Paul Lartey showed proof of concept of the need to manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients on the African continent in order to facilitate production by African companies. In this conversation, Dr Alexandra Graham explains the need for ingredient manufacturing in Africa and what her company achieved in Ghana.2021-06-241h 17
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Africa needs a new model for accessing vaccines.21 June 2021 | How can Africa ensure that it is not at the end of the queue for vaccines and medical products during global health emergencies. The current global mechanisms have failed and Africa is in great need of new models of accessing vaccines.2021-06-211h 38
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda's Take | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | on natural resources of African countries and sustainable development24 May 2021 | Lenias Hwenda: Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Lenias Hwenda's Take on natural resources and the sustainable development of African economies.
Lenias gives her take that if African economies want to protect African economies, they need to protect heath. She discusses the chronic underfunding of African health systems and what that means for sustainable development of African countries and whether natural resources could be a viable source of funding to build resilient health systems capable of withstanding shocks like pandemics and other public health emergencies.2021-05-2404 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Lets´s Talk about Health in Africa | Managing diabetes in the context of a Covid-19 pandemic in Africa24 May 2021 | Diabetes is severely under diagnosed in Africa and it is a condition that increases the vulnerability of patients with Covid-19 disease. In this podcast, Dr Ankia Coetzee an endocrinologists discusses some of the observations in her clinic and offers some tips to patients and professionals how to manage diabetes in the context of Covid-19.2021-05-2459 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Utano Podcast | Let us Talk about Health in Africa PodcastLenias Hwenda talks about her new Podcast, Let's Talk about Health in Africa on Utano Podcast and the conversations she is having with leaders in Africa how to improve healthcare in Africa, leaders such as President Ameenah Gurib Fakim of Mauritius, Dr Faisal Shuaib of Nigeria and Professor Abdool Karim of South Africa. These conversations we put the challenges into perspective by talking about how they impact lives and hold back sustainable development of nations snd explores the solutions that are being put into action to change the state of healthcare in Africa and ask whether what’s being do...2021-05-2103 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | We have made great progress: an African Medicines Agency could be operating in six months.16 April 2021 | Lenias Hwenda: Let's Talk about Health in Africa - We have made progress, an African Medicines Agency could be operating within six months.
In this Podcast, Lenias Hwenda in conversation with Mrs Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda the Head of Programmes Africa Union New Partnership for Development (AU-NEPAD) explains why Africa needs an African Medicines Agency and what such an agency would mean for African people.
Guest: Mrs Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda Head of Programmes Africa Union New Partnership for Development (AU-NEPAD
A lot of work has been put into harmonising medicines regulations across the 55 countries of the...2021-05-1759 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Realising Africa´s digital health opportunity requires plug & play ICT infrastructure10 May 20201 | Lenias Hwenda: Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Realising Africa´s digital health opportunity requires plug & play ICT infrastructure 2021-05-1129 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Africa needs plug and play ICT infrastructure to benefit from the digital health revolution10 May 2021 | Everyone talks about how Africa´s time has come to leapfrog by taking advantage of digitisations. But this requires that Africa has adequate infrastructure to provide digital health services and that people have access to affordable data and reliable telecoms services. How well equipped are countries in Africa to benefit?2021-05-1029 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Africa's war on women is driving the HIV pandemic: ending it begins with each of us.May 02, 2021 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Africa's war on women is driving the HIV pandemic: ending it begins with each of us. Watch the video podcast on our YouTube channel.
Guest: Prof. Quarraisha Abdool Karim, UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents and the Associate Scientific Director for the HIV
Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to be a major global public health problem, and Africa remains the most affected region in the world. It...2021-05-051h 05
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | We can improve cancer survival of African women. Here is how.April 20, 2021 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - We can improve cancer survival of African women. Here is how. Watch video podcast on YouTube
Guest: Dr Nomsa Tsikai: Chief Clinical Oncologist at the Harare Oncology Centre specializes in cancers that affecting women, like cervical and breast cancer.
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Lenias Hwenda in conversation with Dr Nomsa Tsikai discusses the issues contributing to high cancer mortality amongst African women. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide accounting for more than 8 million deaths each year - 70% of them in poor countries...2021-04-201h 09
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - We must improve cancer survival of African women with simple measures.April 16, 2021 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - We must improve cancer survival of African women for sustainable development. Watch podcast video on YouTube
Guest: Dr Nomsa Tsikai: Chief Clinical Oncologist at the Harare Oncology Centre specializes in cancers that affecting women, like cervical and breast cancer.
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Lenias Hwenda in conversation with Dr Nomsa Tsikai discuss some of the factors contributing to high cancer mortality amongst African women and what needs to be done to improve them. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide accounting for more th...2021-04-1601 min
Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in AfricaLenias Hwenda | This is what it took us to finally achieve success in polio eradication in NigeriaApril 11, 2021 | Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Polio eradication in Nigeria: An African success story. Watch podcast video on YouTube
Guest: Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director and CEO of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency of Nigeria (NHPCDA)
Lenias Hwenda is in conversation with Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director and CEO of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency of Nigeria (NPHCDA). Dr Shuaib shares his insights and analysis on how Nigeria managed to reach the finishing line in its final push to eradicate polio to achieve one of the greatest...2021-04-1453 min