Utano Podcast | Let's Talk about Health in Africa

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 into a technology transfer agreement with Dyadic...

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 the patients in the instition´s care. 

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.

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 what her company achieved in Ghana.

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.

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 means for sustainable development of Afric...

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 Covid-19.

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 the challenges into perspective by talking about ho...

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 agen...

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

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?

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). Des...

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 conversation with Dr Nomsa Tsikai discusses the iss...

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  Lenias Hwenda in conversation with Dr No...

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 Executive Director and CEO of the National Primary...