Dr. Joyce Banda, Malawi’s first female President and Africa’s second, is a long-standing, multiple award-winning champion of women’s and girls’ rights. Her foundation has improved education, maternal health and women’s rights and empowerment for 1.3 million Malawians. She has regularly been voted one of the most powerful women in Africa.
Distinctions
- African Leadership Award for the sustainable end of hunger (1997)
- Women of Distinction Global Leadership in Politics Award (2015)
Commitments
2019
- Member of the Steering Committee of the fight against counterfeit medicines of the Brazzaville Foundation
2020
- Participation in the Lomé Summit and the launch of the Lomé Initiative against Medicines that kill
Fighting medicines that kill
