Coming to you from Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, about her decades of work and activism in the field and the current situation for SRHR. We also speak with Kinza Hasan, of Women Deliver, about the launch of her Feminist Health Systems Charter. We would like to acknowledge that this episode was recorded on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation and we pay our respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Zoë Mullan, acting deputy editor Pingyue Jin, senior editors Shangrong Han, and Gavin Cleaver.

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Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, is joined by Isata Dumbuya and Allison Adamson to discuss the building and launch of the new Paul E. Farmer Maternal Centre of Excellent in Sierra Leone. Isata discusses her journey from working as a midwife in the UK's NHS for decades to returning to Sierra Leone, the sustainability of skills and training in LMICs, and raising the expectations and standards of maternal health in the country, while Allison talks about her architectural role in building the Centre, the unique challenges posed by the project, and training up locals with construction skills for life.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Zoë Mullan, acting deputy editor Pingyue Jin, senior editors Shangrong Han, and Gavin Cleaver.

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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What systems fix would unlock the biggest equity gains? Should countries target patients with TB or conduct universal interventions? What does self-reliance look like post-aid cuts? Madhukar Pai joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, for an in-depth discussion on TB ahead of World TB Day.

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