What does it actually take to save a continent? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Stavros Nicolaou — Group Senior Executive for Strategic Trade at Aspen Pharma Holdings, the largest pharmaceutical company on the African continent — for one of the most important conversations we've ever had on this show. With nearly 40 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Stavros has been at the center of some of Africa's most defining health battles: from pioneering generic antiretrovirals that brought HIV medication from $15,000 to $180 per patient per year, to coordinating Africa's private sector response during COVID-19, to sounding the alarm on the continent's next silent epidemic — diabetes. We get into the hard truths: why Africa still imports most of its own medicine, how wealthy nations pre-bought COVID vaccines before they were even manufactu ...