A Shot in the Arm Podcast

Jeff Sturchio catches up with friend of the pod, Dr. Meg Doherty, WHO’s Director of HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. It has been a busy week at the Munich AIDS Conference for the World Health Organization, and Jeff gets Meg to unpack their conference program, particularly the release global data on HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs. 

With the #PUTPEOPLEFIRST being the call to action here at the International Aids Society Conference 2024, youth advocate Sinentlantla Gogela catches up with Y-isha Raphael about the work she has been doing at the conference, her views on the current state of youth activism and advocacy. 

Sinentlantla Gogela is one of the current APHA CHAMPIONS based in South Africa, passionate about uplifting her community, keeping young girls period positive and taking all the haters to task be it in meeting rooms or on social media. She is a student at UWC pursuing her BA in physiotherapy and psychology and hoping to use that education to further her community work and advocacy.

Together they delve into the complexities of young African people taking on these big issues, keeping up with their mental health and standing up for their peers.

Ben talks with Hatice Beton and Alan Donnelly about why the G20 established a new partnership on Health & Development in 2018, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the era of pandemics is radically transforming high-level political fora like this.

Guests:

Alan Donnelly - Executive Chairman Sovereign Sustainability And Development & Convenor of The G20 Health And Development Partnership

Hatice Beton - Executive Director, G20 Health And Development Partnership

Links:

https://g20healthpartnership.com

Jeff and Ben sit down with Heidi Larson from the Global Listening Project, reflecting on how the HIV movement influenced pandemic preparedness.

Yvette and Ben meet Gilead’s Dr. Moupali Das to discuss the latest clinical trial results for a new prevention technology that reduces HIV transmission by 100 percent in women. How did the research go and what plans does the company have to provide for the 100s of thousands of girls and women in need across Africa?

The first full day of #aids2024, sees Ben and Jeff reflecting on the some powerful presentations from the opening plenary - all while Yvette is off chairing sessions of her own. Then friend of the pod, Emily Bass joins Ben and Jeff to discuss the perilous state of the largest funder of HIV services - the US tax payer, through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. 

https://www.iasociety.org/conferences/aids2024

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://www.state.gov/pepfar-aids-2024

https://thinkglobalhealth.org

https://phc.org.ua/en

https://www.tht.org.uk

#aids2024 #HIV #diagnostics #treatment #Prevention #PrEP #ARVs #bipartisan #pepfar #protest #puttingpeoplefirst

In the first episode from #aids2024, Yvette Raphael and Jeff Sturchio join Ben to highlight the scientific data they are excited about that will be presented this week, and take stock of the panoply of pre-conferences, satellite symposia and press conferences they’ve already been to - and the conference hasn’t even started!

https://www.iasociety.org/conferences/aids2024

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/07/20/default-calendar/who-at-aids-2024

https://www.state.gov/pepfar-aids-2024

#aids2024 #HIV #diagnostics #treatment #Prevention #PrEP #ARVs #longacting #cabotegravir #lenacapavir #doxy-prep #doxy-pep #choicemanifesto

We’ll be at AIDS2024 podcasting daily, and to give us a primer on what to expect, Ben is joined by infectious disease specialist, Ben LaBrot - on everything from the difference between epidemic control and elimination to how to get prevention and care services to communities hardly reached by conventional clinical services.

This podcast is supported by Roche Molecular Diagnostics.

https://www.iasociety.org/conferences/aids2024

https://keck.usc.edu

https://diagnostics.roche.com/gb/en/home.html

https://floatingdoctors.com

https://www.unaids.org/en

#aids2024 #HIV #AIDS #epidemiccontrol #elimination

#marginalisedpopulations #PrEP #treatment #diagnostics

Since its ‘birth’ in 1994, Frontline AIDS has worked local communities best placed to carry the shared mission to end AIDS for everyone, everywhere. In this episode, we explore how this unique approach to localization has delivered effective community-led results from Kenya to Ukraine - and ask what the future holds for the partnership. 

Panelists:

David Clark, Head: Programmes, Frontline AIDS

Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director, Alliance for Public Health, Ukraine

Dr. Lilian Otiso, LVCT Health 

https://frontlineaids.org

https://aph.org.ua/en/home

https://lvcthealth.org

#HIV #AIDS #communities #CBOs #impact #prevention #treatment #humanrights #stigma #ukraine #kenya

Ben is joined by two friends of the pod, Christine Stegling, Deputy Director of UNAIDS, and Vuyiseka Dubula, Department Head, Community Rights & Gender at the Global Fund, to reflect on what this week’s developments at the WHA, mean for the global AIDS response, and why the lessons of HIV do not seem to have been learned in access to medicines and pandemics preparation.

And that's a wrap from the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland! Thanks for joining us!

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://www.theglobalfund.org/en

#WHA77 #HIV #AIDS #pandemicspreparedness #accesstomedicines