Podcast
Neglected Tropical Diseases – A Potential Roadmap Forward
Episode 9
The Africa Roundtable — The Podcast: Neglected Tropical Diseases – A Potential Roadmap Forward
June 2022
Dr. Borna Nyaoke Anoke
What are the biggest challenges in researching affordable remedies? And is there a more appropriate way to deliver affordable medicine?
We speak with Dr. Borna Nyaoke Anoke, physician and senior project manager for clinical trials related to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, about NTDs, how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted health challenges in the Global South, and the biggest challenges in researching and delivering affordable medicine.
Contact Persons
Corinna Robertz, c.robertz@globalperspectives.org
The Africa Roundtable — The Podcast
The Africa Roundtable — The Podcast is the accompanying audio service for the eponymous forum for decision-makers on African-European cooperation.
Related Program
As the side event to the annual Ibrahim Governance Weekend, we aim to identify the opportunities to deepen trade and investment relations as well as leveraging private and institutional funding.
The Commission “A Changing World – Germany and the Global South” presents its recommendations as a basis for addressing key strategic decisions facing Germany today.
We are at a turning point in European-African economic relations. The action recommendations of the fourth conference.
The Commission "A Changing World - Germany and the Global South", chaired by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, presents its first impulses ahead of the German federal elections in 2025.
This interview publication reviews the effects of recent cuts in reproductive health, presents practical options for funding and service delivery, and offers guidance for policymakers and investors.
The second edition of The Africa Roundtable focussed on recovery, preparedness, and resilience in times of crises. It examined new possibilities for sustainable European-African cooperation.
At the eighth edition of The Africa Roundtable, we discussed how to rethink and strengthen sustainable finance in Africa through strategic partnerships with Europe.
Program Archive
In times of limited resources and geopolitical tension, multilateral institutions can maximize the impact of existing development funding.
Funding cuts are putting health systems across Africa under pressure. Collaboration with Germany and Europe can help strengthen healthcare in the long term.
This interview publication reviews the effects of recent cuts in reproductive health, presents practical options for funding and service delivery, and offers guidance for policymakers and investors.
Africa’s critical minerals are essential to Europe’s future, playing a significant role in the green transition and industrial competitiveness. The Follow-Up to the 9th edition of the Roundtable.
In the ninth edition of the Africa Roundtable, we discussed how Europe and Africa build partnerships that turn Africa's raw material wealth into local value creation.
This paper explores how Africa can add value to its critical minerals, boost local processing, and drive green industrialization while strengthening regional and global supply chains.
We discussed with State Secretary Niels Annen how development policy can be integrated into networked foreign, security, and economic policies.
US tariffs changes are causing new uncertainties in global trade. Together with ONE and Pinelopi K. Goldberg, we discussed how international development policy needs to be realigned.
As traditional trade relations shift, strengthening local value chains, enhancing trade agreements, and mobilizing private capital are key to building more resilient and mutually beneficial economies.