Special Episode: Human African Trypanosomiasis & Drug Development

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Our episode last week ended on a hopeful note, a rare occurrence for this podcast, and it was due in large part to the incredible decline in reported cases of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) over the past decade. In this bonus episode, we explore one of the major reasons behind this drop in HAT: the new medication fexinidazole, developed through a partnership between the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing new treatments for neglected diseases and Sanofi, a French healthcare company. We are thrilled to be joined by two researchers from DNDi, Dr. Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft and Dr. Wilfried Mutombo Kalonji, who share their insights into the challenges associated with bringing a medication all the way from its development stage, to testing it in the field, and finally ensuring that access is provided for those who need it most. We also chat about how this treatment works, the impact that COVID-19 has had on screening efforts for sleeping sickness, the lessons learned from fexinidazole’s development, and so much more. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts! And when you’re finished with the ep, check out this beautiful video from DNDi chronicling the story of fexinidazole: A doctor’s dream: A pill for sleeping sickness.

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1:06.0	Hi, I'm Erin Welsh, and this is This Podcast Will Kill You.
1:28.0	Welcome back.
1:29.4	You are listening to another bonus episode, our second, in our mini-series of bonus content,
1:35.1	exploring in more depth the topics we covered the previous week.
1:39.0	As we always say on the podcast, A, or not experts, and B, we can't cover absolutely everything
1:45.5	about a disease or a topic in our regular episodes.
1:49.2	And those two things probably aren't going to change.
1:52.4	But we can talk to actual experts in the subject we covered the previous week and get to explore
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