Best Lenias Hwenda Podcasts (2024)

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Beyond making medicines – the role of Pharma | Lutz Hegemann, President Novartis Global Health 23:50

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With 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 organi…

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Lenias Hwenda | The African Medicines Agency - what comes next with Chimwemwe Chamdimba 49:20

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#africa #health #clinicaltrials #decentralisedclinicaltrials #healthcare #globalhealth #medicines #vaccines #ama #africanmedicinesagency #ema #europeanmedicinesagency30 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 exc…

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Lenias Hwenda | Can decentralised clinical trials work in Africa, expand diversity & global reach? 39:55

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#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…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's talk about rare diseases in Africa 37:04

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14 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 organisati…

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Lenias Hwenda | Why foreign aid for routine health care in Africa should end by 2030 43:48

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Have 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…

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Lenias Hwenda | How big is the cancer burden in Africa and what governments should be doing about it. 2:57

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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

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Lenias Hwenda What's Wrong with Global Health - Perspectives of African Women 1:05:13

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To 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 a…

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Lenias Hwenda | How Egypt, Togo and Malawi achieved lymphatic filariasis elimination 47:33

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22 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 pr…

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Lenias Hwenda | Three countries have eliminated lymphatic filariasis in Africa, and more are on the way 47:58

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#ntds #endtheneglect #neglectednotrare

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Lenias Hwenda | This is a big public health challenge you have never heard of - rabies and snakebite 58:12

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11 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 treat…

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Lenias Hwenda | The implications of the transition from pandemic to endemic phase for African Countries? 1:00:10

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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 chai…

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Lenias Hwenda | More Clinical Trials in Africa will Help Pharma Industry Increase Diversity and Inclusion 59:52

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28 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 coun…

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Lenias Hwenda | With investment, we can eliminate schistosomiasis and other NTDs 1:03:09

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21 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 …

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Lenias Hwenda | We are close to eliminating sleeping sickness, but success is not a given 58:22

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30 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 treatm…

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Lenias Hwenda | This is what everyone should do to achieve health equity - not just in Africa, but globally 40:34

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21 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…

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Lenias Hwenda | A biotech making unique diagnostics from plants adapted to the harsh Cape province 58:44

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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 an…

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Lenias Hwenda | An oral Covid vaccine and oral insulin presents huge potential to improve access in Africa | Nadav Kidron 46:51

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16 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 in…

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Lenias Hwenda | How to fix Africa´s growing pharmaceutical trade deficit | Stavros Nicolaou 1:07:41

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09 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…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | In Serving Humanity, Global Cooperation has its Limits 1:12:06

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9 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.

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Lenias Hwenda | Africans should be benefiting from the wealth and natural resources of their nations 30:55

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24 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 g…

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Lenias Hwenda | Africa CDC´s bold new public health order 1:13:18

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28 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 …

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Implementing a pharmaceutical pillar into the Political Economy of Mauritius 51:35

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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 Glob…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | The African Medicines Agency Achieved Ratification and Will Come Into effect before the end for 2021 38:38

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14 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 e…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Afrigen is one of the most exciting and innovative biotechnology companies coming out of Africa 1:07:38

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The 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 andEurope…

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Lenias Hwenda | Sothema, an African pharmaceutical manufacturer has been making insulin and other biologics for 40 years 39:08

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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 fe…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Government buy-in is key to preventing the implosion of Africa´s vaccine manufacturing businesses 51:03

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31 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…

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Lenias Hwenda | Every corrupt decision taken in Africa´s healthcare sector leads to a loss of life 1:22:16

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5 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 th…

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Lenias Hwenda | If we are serious about fixing Africa´s problems, let's act. 1:03:59

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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.

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Africa must manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients to achieve true security of access 1:17:42

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24 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 w…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Africa needs a new model for accessing vaccines. 1:38:56

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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.

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Lenias Hwenda's Take | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | on natural resources of African countries and sustainable development 4:38

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24 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…

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Lenias Hwenda | Lets´s Talk about Health in Africa | Managing diabetes in the context of a Covid-19 pandemic in Africa 59:34

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24 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 Covi…

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Lenias Hwenda | Utano Podcast | Let us Talk about Health in Africa Podcast 3:00

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Lenias 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 t…

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Lenias Hwenda | We have made great progress: an African Medicines Agency could be operating in six months. 59:41

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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 Afr…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Realising Africa´s digital health opportunity requires plug & play ICT infrastructure 29:14

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10 May 20201 | Lenias Hwenda: Let's Talk about Health in Africa - Realising Africa´s digital health opportunity requires plug & play ICT infrastructure

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | Africa needs plug and play ICT infrastructure to benefit from the digital health revolution 29:14

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10 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?…

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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. 1:05:31

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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 …

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa | We can improve cancer survival of African women. Here is how. 1:09:52

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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. Description Lenias Hwenda in c…

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Lenias Hwenda | Let's Talk about Health in Africa - We must improve cancer survival of African women with simple measures. 1:00

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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. Description Le…

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Lenias Hwenda | This is what it took us to finally achieve success in polio eradication in Nigeria 53:08

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April 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 Exec…

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