In this week's episode we hear from Detricia Pamba, a patient advocate for people living with diabetes and Prof Kaushik Ramaiya from Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Tanzania. Together they paint a vivid picture of what life is like for people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in East Africa and what is needed to improve long-term, ‘humanised’ care for patients living with NCDs.

Detricia Pamba

Multi-Media Journalist, Editor and Content Creation Executive, Mwananchi Communications Ltd 

Detricia Pamba is the Content Creation Executive at Mwananchi Communications Ltd, Editor for Mwananchi Scoop and Features writer for The Citizen. Her journalism experience extends on health, business and money management, women and youth, with a mix of arts and entertainment. She is a Type 1 Diabetes patient since 2011 who advocates for the awareness of diabetes in Tanzania through her writings. 

www.linkedin.com/detriciapamba 

www.instagram.com/detriciapamba 

https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/health-/living-with-type-1-diabetes-detricia-s-story-3875928 

https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/success/what-you-need-to-know-about-online-privacy-3557866 

@detriciapamba

Prof Kaushik Ramaiya

CEO, Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Tanzania 

Professor Ramaiya has been actively involved in research on diabetes for many years and specialised, among other topics, on glucose tolerance and cardiovascular disease risk factors and mainly focused on Indian communities living in Africa. At present, Professor Ramaiya is working with children who have Type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular complications of antiretroviral drugs in HIV/AIDS and Diabetes/TB interaction. As part of the Respond Africa Partnership,, he is working on CD NCD Integration models (MOCCA Study) and will be overseeing  metformin intervention in HIV patients with IGT (META Trial).  

https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-kaushik-ramaiya 

https://inteafrica.org/