{"id":5945,"date":"2025-12-02T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oximio.com\/?post_type=oximio-resources&#038;p=5945"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:53:41","slug":"podcast-customs-clearance-africa","status":"publish","type":"oximio-resources","link":"https:\/\/dev.oximio.com\/ge\/resources\/podcast-customs-clearance-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Through Customs: Streamlining Clinical Trial Logistics in East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5945\" class=\"elementor elementor-5945\">\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cce6e75 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6cce6e75\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7719202 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7719202\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f6d4dd3 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f6d4dd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKwsIubUlCs?si=ehlGmK7TonWqDg73\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Anyone who\u2019s worked in clinical research knows that running trials across borders can be challenging. The logistics behind moving sensitive materials, investigational drugs, biological samples and medical supplies is complex, and often fraught with difficulties. Nowhere is that more apparent than when those shipments arrive at customs.<\/p><p>In our latest episode of Oximio Voices we are heading to Africa \u2013 a continent spanning 54 countries, each with its own set of regulations and protocols \u2013 not forgetting the thousands of languages which are spoken across the continent and the alarming fact that the continent also possesses the largest disease burden in the world.<\/p><p>In this episode, Wilrian Brummer, Oximio\u2019s Business Development manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa region discusses some of the common issues sponsors and CROs face when moving clinical trial materials into or out of African countries and solutions available.<\/p><p>Listen now.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":3231,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"resources-categories":[11],"class_list":["post-5945","oximio-resources","type-oximio-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resources-categories-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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