We are a podcast about global health and human rights. And right now, we are asking the tough questions about what a world with #COVID19 looks like. Rapid, mass global #vaccination programs are needed - something never achieved in #globalpublichealth before. But who will be left behind? #Pandemics have upended #globalsecurity priorities and turned our lives upside down. What does this mean for #humanrights? What are the implications for epidemics, like, #HIV, #TB and #Malaria, that we have n ...
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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.…
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South African Youth taking centre stage at AIDS 2024 (speaking on youth advocacy, activism and community work)
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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…
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The G20 and G7 Health & Development Partnership
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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…
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Jeff and Ben sit down with Heidi Larson from the Global Listening Project, reflecting on how the HIV movement influenced pandemic preparedness.By Ben Plumley
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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?…
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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 Emerge…
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AIDS 2024: Pre-conferences, Satellite Symposia & Press Conferences, Oh My!
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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.or…
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An AIDS 2024 Primer with Infectious Disease Specialist, Ben LaBrot
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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 supporte…
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Frontline AIDS Celebrates 30 years of Community Action
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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: …
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Putting HIV back into Pandemics Preparedness at the World Health Assembly
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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 …
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Taking the Temperature on Climate Health at the World Health Assembly with Foundation S
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Vanina Laurent-Ledru, the Director General of Foundation S, the philanthropic organization of Sanofi, joins Ben live on the podcast to chat about the impact of climate change on global health.By Ben Plumley
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What we learned at the 77th World Health Assembly with Global Health Council's Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
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Ben sits down with Elisha Dunn-Georgiou from the Global Health Council to reflect on decisions made, agreements missed, and funding committed to at the 77th WHA in Geneva, Switzerland.By Ben Plumley
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Access to Medicines - There’s Good News at the World Health Assembly
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Some good news to report from Geneva - albeit from an independent cinema in downtown Geneva. The Medicines Patent Pool premiered a short documentary highlighting 10 years of 10 billion doses, and 24 million people on a new, transformational treatment regimen it helped coordinate with generics manufacturers and the originator pharmaceutical company.…
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What’s Really At Stake at the World Health Assembly
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Ben is joined by Katri Bertram, Berlin-based global health policy strategist, to reflect on yesterday’s WHA developments on international health regulations & the pandemics accord. She also challenges the global health community to accept that we don’t live in an era of never ending progress, but must address the stagnation, even regression in our …
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Syphilis on the rise at the World Health Assembly
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While the WHA grapples with pandemics preparation today, we go behind the headlines to chat with World Health Organization’s Dr. Teo Wi about a report on the dramatic rise of sexually transmitted diseases presented to the World Health Assembly later this week - and her refreshing, direct views on how to address the surprising causes driving these i…
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Back to the Future at the World Health Assembly
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Our first episode from the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva Switzerland, sees us introducing a new host, Jeff Sturchio, who walks Ben through the key issues to watch this week - top of the list are the precarious future of the pandemics treaty and the WHO’s first investment round. https://www.who.int/about/accountability/governance/world-health…
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All About ViiV: An Interview with CEO Deborah Waterhouse at CROI 2024
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ViiV Healthcare is the world’s only pharmaceutical company dedicated exclusively to HIV, and in this episode, Ben meets its CEO, Deborah Waterhouse, to explore the company’s approach to HIV R&D and commercial success - as well as the controversies its global access strategy has attracted for its new long acting injectables. Deborah and Ben find the…
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Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: International Women's Day - Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.
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This International Women’s Day, we’re sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS. Yvette Raphael reflects on the challenges and setbacks girls and women face around the world in 2024, in a hard hitting conversation with Frontline AIDS’ Yumnah Hattas, Toyin Chukwudozie Executive Director of Nigeria’s Education As A Vaccine, and Beirne Roose-Snyder, Senior …
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In the next of our podcasts dedicated to the USA’s multibillion investment in the fight against AIDS, Ben and Yvette catch up with Emily Bass, author of To End A Plague - the definitive history of PEPFAR, to discuss how PEPFAR, the pride of US bipartisanship, has become yet another victim of congressional mischief-making. PEPFAR saves lives: it als…
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Uganda’s Legalized Persecution of LGBTQ+ / Personal & Public Health Threats
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Recorded in June 2023, Yvette Raphael and Ben Plumley catch up with Dr. Frank Mugisha, a leading Ugandan advocate at the forefront of the fight against the country’s persecution of the LGBTQ+ community. After the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill became law in Uganda, Frank explains the direct threats to the safety of the LGBTQ+ Ugandans and their sup…
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The Global Trust Crisis with 70,000 People from 70 Countries
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The Global Listening Project has teamed up with the Global Health Diplomats and A Shot In The Arm Podcast, to bring you the release of the Project’s new 70 country 70,000 people study into how public trust in governments and health policies have been affected by COVID-19. It’s the first data set of this size to capture comprehensive information abo…
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How US Domestic Abortion Decisions Affect the Rights & Health of People Globally
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In the first of an informal series of episodes looking at the PEPFAR & US global AIDS funding, Ben chats with Dr Anu Kumar, President & CEO of IPAS, on how the US Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe vs Wade has mobilized extremist neo-colonial efforts to reverse HIV, safe abortion services and global health programs particularly in sub Saharan Africa. ht…
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Upcoming episodes of A Shot In The Arm and Global Health Diplomats podcasts are focusing on PEPFAR - the US multi-billion investment in helping countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, and saving tens of millions of lives. Its future funding is precarious, stalled in Congress - and we will explore the massive impact it has had, how it became the…
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How Prepared is Japanese Society for the Next Crisis?
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Japan’s collectivistic approach to society enabled its citizens to “pull together” through the COVID pandemic - but has it become complacent in the face of future crises? Ben caught up with Heidi Larson, the co-founder of the Global Listening Project in Tokyo, as she shared initial learnings from the Project’s 70 country opinion research study into…
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Lagos: Are Men Still the Providers in the 21st Century?
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Y-Isha Raphael asks three young Nigerian content creators from Lagos (who recently participated in a joint MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Global Listening Project digital media bootcamp) on how gender social norms are changing in a rapidly-evolving world of instagram and TikTok after COVID lockdowns. Joining Y-Isha Raphael (@shesinprogress.sa) ar…
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In a rare moment of navel-gazing, Ben catches up with friend of the pod Anto Neosoul - host of the Unlock Your Soul Podcast, and Nya Mona Muchemi - host of the hit podcast AfriWetu on how podcasting is democratizing content-creation, challenging harmful social attitudes and practices, and fighting back against misinformation that clutters too much …
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Are Men Still the Providers in 21st century Kenya?
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Y-Isha Raphael asks two young Kenyan content creators how gender social norms are changing in a rapidly-evolving world of instagram and TikTok after COVID lockdowns. And they ask the tough question: are men really still the providers in 21st century Kenya? Y-Isha Raphael @shesinprogress.sa Claudia naisabwa @Claudia_naisabwa Narayan mbugua @_na.raya…
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Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: Who Keeps Governments Accountable?
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To coincide with World AIDS Day 2023, we’re sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS, and Ben is joined by Leora Pillay, Head of HIV Prevention Advocacy and two of its national partners, Dr Lilian Mwakyosi, co-founder of Dare For Progress in Tanzania and Simon Sikwese, Executive Director of Pakachere IHDC in Malawi to discuss newly published accountabil…
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Sisters are Creating Content for Themselves
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Southern African women are leading the digital media revolution for social change across the continent - from a celebrity, to an activist and a non profit leader. Stef Ndolvu (host of the Ndolvus Uncut), Yvette Raphael (podcast regular and Executive Director of Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA)) and Wame Jallow, the new head of the MTV…
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“Make We Talk” - Hopes and Dreams for Nigeria’s Young Women
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In a feature-length episode, Y-Isha Raphael meets three young women from Lagos, Nigeria who reflect on their hopes and dreams - and how society’s social norms help - and hinder - them in achieving their goals. They explore everything from HIV to family planning, careers - and whether, when they have teenage kids of their own, they will be allowed t…
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New Yorkers experienced one of the earliest & most deadly urban outbreaks of COVID-19. How did the city cope and what learnings can we take to help societies prepare for future crises? Ben explores these, the Mpox outbreak and other questions with Professor Heidi Larson, Co-founder of the Global Listening Project, and Dr Ashwin Vasan, Commissioner …
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Sharing the Mic: Is the UN Excluding Communities?
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Ben got together recently at the UN with the representatives of Frontline AIDS’ community-based organization partners from Cambodia, Ukraine and Namibia to get a grip on why civil society groups are increasingly being excluded from international negotiations and high- level meetings, what we all need to do to rectify this situation - and how Frontl…
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Sharing the Mic: What’s the Future of the AIDS Response Without Affected Communities?
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Recently-appointed new Executive Director of Frontline AIDS, Robin Gorna, and Cindy Kelemi, Executive Director of Bonela (Botswana Network on Ethics, Law & HIV/AIDS) meet up with Ben in New York to discuss the future of the global AIDS response, and the pressure on community based organizations to do more on the frontlines - with less resources. ht…
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Have you had your seasonal flu vaccine? What about your updated COVID vaccine, or the new RSV vaccine? Ben chats with James Mansi from Moderna and Podcast regular, Yvette Raphael about the opportunities - and challenges - of protecting people with seasonal vaccines and building trust in the science behind those vaccines. Guests: James Mansi, Vice P…
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On the road in Singapore with the Global Listening Project, Ben checks in with Heidi Larson and Leesa Lin as they share the first top-line results from the Project’s 70-country societal preparedness index with the Center For Trusted Internet & Community at the National University of Singapore. No subject is out of bounds - from perceptions on mRNA …
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Decolonialize your Career in Global Health
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Ben has a fascinating conversation with Dr. Kirk Scirto, author of the modestly titled “Doing Global Health Work” published by Hesperian on his lessons learned from a career of over 20 years sharing medical skills in service of local health services in 11 countries across 4 continents. Its a cracking read - and essential for those interested in mea…
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Jirair Ratevosian: A Global Health Leader Runs for Congress
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Jirair Ratevosian, a respected & well known figure in the field of global health, is running to succeed the Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff in California’s District 30. We explore his decision, the issues facing this Los Angeles community where Jirair grew up, the importance of his Armenian roots - and his thoughts on the funding cliff facing the …
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Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: HIV is a Feminist Issue
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To coincide with the 2023 Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda in July 2023, Sharing the Mic explores the impact of the AIDS epidemic on girls and women who remain disproportionately affected by HIV. Joining Ben and co-host Frontline AIDS’ Oratile Moseki, are Vuyiseka Dubula of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and Joyce Ouma from Y Plus Global t…
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Looking Back to Move Forward: A Conversation with Robin Gorna
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We reconnect with Robin Gorna, an internationally respected gender and HIV activist & writer to update us on what it has been like for her living with long COVID for 3 years, and we reflect on how the lessons of the HIV movement from the last thirty years, can help guide us in this new era of pandemics preparedness and response. https://robingorna.…
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76th World Health Assembly - Pandemic? What Pandemic?
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The first full day of the #WHA76 - speeches and networking. (Not) Taiwan and Russia on the UN floor. Behind the scenes, efforts brewing to ensure we don't forget COVID, as the world prepares for the "polycrises" that face us... Elisha are joined by Lois Chingandu, Frontline AIDS. This is a special live streamed series with the Global Health Council…
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76th World Health Assembly - What To Expect
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The Global Health Council is joining A Shot In The Arm Podcast to provide accessible, daily updates on all the news coming out of the 76th World Health Assembly. In this introductory episode, Ben Plumley and GHC President & CEO Elisha Dunn-Georgiou explore what to expect, from a pandemics treaty, Universal Health Coverage, non-communicable diseases…
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Each year the San Francisco Community Health Center holds “The Show Of Hope” to raise funds for its essential life-saving work that provides a safety net for those who fall through the existing safety nets. This year saw the opening of its very first dedicated space for and by trans men and women, providing comprehensive wellness services for clien…
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HIV Prevention for Girls & Women - Real Choice, Not Theoretical Options
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In the first episode of this new season of Sharing The Mic with Frontline AIDS, we talk choice in HIV prevention, why it’s essential to protect girls and women in sub Saharan Africa, and why the world needs to step up to make exciting new biomedical innovations available to them, as a matter of urgency. Introduction: Lois Chingandu, Interim Executi…
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The Twende Out in Nairobi - with the Global Listening Project
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In the aftermath of COVID lockdowns, how have health, career and life opportunities changed for Kenyan teenage girls & young women? ”Twende (let’s go) Out” with Heidi Larson’s Global Listening Project in Nairobi to understand how changing social norms are helping - and hindering the country’s post-COVID generation of young people. Guests: Lilian Ot…
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The ReSurgence of Global Safe & Affordable Surgical Care
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Coinciding with the launch of a new global campaign by ReSurge International to promote greater awareness & funding for local surgical teams to provide life-changing reconstructive care, we meet Jim Chang and Natalie Meyers of ReSurge, along with ground-breaking Zimbabwean surgeon, Godfrey Muguti, to ask why 18 million die every year from surgicall…
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Live from CROI 2023 - Kim Smith, ViiV Healthcare: CabLA for African Girls and Women
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Ben and Yvette have a rather vigorous but hugely engaging conversation with friend of the Pod, Dr. Kimberly Smith, the Head of R&D for ViiV Healthcare, on what’s needed to ensure that the potential of long acting injectable antiretrovirals - for both HIV prevention & treatment - are realized for girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa. With its costs…
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Live from CROI 2023 - Mosaico and the Future of HIV Vaccines
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We have two CROI Episodes today - and this episode, brought to you with APHA, AVAC and CASPR, Yvette and Ben chat with Dr. Nyaradzo Mgodi University of Zimbabwe and Ntando Yola, APHA, to take stock of the results of the Mosaico trial (which was recently discontinued because, while safe, it was ineffective), the role of bNAbs (broadly neutralizing a…
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Live from CROI 2023 - Monica Gandhi: Connecting the Science of Pandemics
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In today’s CROI episode, Yvette and Ben chat with Professor Monica Gandhi, UCSF and medical director of SF General’s famous Ward 86, exploring what the science at CROI is telling us about the links and disconnects between HIV, COVID, Mpox and other infectious disease threats - and what it all means for every day people trying to navigate lockdowns,…
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A Shot In the Arm Podcast: Live From CROI 2023!
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Join Ben Plumley and Yvette Raphael, live from CROI 2023 (the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - THE conference for the latest science on viruses, bacteria and other pandemic threats), as they profile the data they want to learn about - from HIV prevention, treatment and cure, to Mpox, COVID and other bugs - as well as Yvette…
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Recorded in MTV Studios in South Africa at the end of November, we look back at an insanely busy year for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation in creating content to help young people to make their own decisions about their health in Africa and South Asia, and reflect on big news for its future in 2023. Ben and Yvette chat with other members of the Sou…
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