Medicines and 2000 miles Across Africa - Jeremy Holmes

East Africa is facing enormous healthcare challenges. As the population enjoys increasing life expectancy and more people adopt a Western lifestyle, rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer are going through the roof. But the supply of medicines, almost all of which are imported, falls a long way short of demand. The speaker is a past CEO of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and spent two months in 2023 looking at this challenge. The experience was fascinating, sobering but also sometimes uplifting