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Afghanistan funding shortfall could lead to hunger

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: The United Nations has warned that a huge shortfall in funding could lead to the collapse of the Afghanistan’s health system and widespread hunger. The cruise industry is making a post-covid comeback with American passengers accounting for 50% of global revenue. The CFO of Novo Nordisk explains why it’s limiting the global roll out of its weight loss drug Wegovy.

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0:00.0

Let's talk supply and demand with the maker of ozampic.

0:04.2

Hello, and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report.

0:06.6

Live from the BBC World Service, I'm Leana Burm.

0:09.4

Thanks for joining us.

0:13.8

You look great.

0:14.8

Everybody looks so great.

0:16.2

When I look around this room, I can't help but wonder,

0:18.8

is ozampic right for me?

0:22.2

That was Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars with a joke about

0:24.6

one of the most well-known drugs in the world.

0:26.6

Ozampic, in a BBC exclusive interview,

0:28.8

the company that makes it, Novo Nordisk,

0:31.0

said it's limiting its global roll-out of its weight-last-drug,

0:34.2

where Govy, because of the high demand in the U.S.,

0:37.0

I asked his chief financial officer, Karsten Knunsten,

0:40.6

what he thinks about it all.

0:42.2

It's something we have a lot of conversations about,

0:45.8

and it's also something that is a little bit new

0:49.2

for us as a company.

0:50.6

In terms of pharmaceutical intervention,

0:54.6

and efficacious and safe treatments for obesity,

0:58.0

that does not really exist until not too many years back.

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