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AIDS' Existential Moment

Center for Strategic and International Studies

A conversation on the progress made combating the HIV/AIDS crisis and the work that remains to be done.

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Oct 7, 2022 · 38 min
Matt Kavanagh: “To end AIDS and COVID-19, end inequalities.”
CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with Matt Kavanagh, Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy, and Knowledge at UNAIDS, where he is responsible for the organization’s work to advance policy, law and political change to end the AIDS pandemic.
Sep 30, 2022 · 38 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – IAVI’s Mark Feinberg: Innovations in Prevention and Novel Partnerships Are Needed to Sustain the HIV Response
Jeff Sturchio speaks with Dr. Mark Feinberg, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
Sep 23, 2022 · 25 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Solange Baptiste: Addressing Structural Barriers to Achieve Equitable Access to HIV Treatment for All
Jeff Sturchio speaks with Solange Baptiste, Executive Director of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), and addresses the issues that are still creating barriers to equitable access to HIV treatment around the world.
Sep 16, 2022 · 28 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Sex Work Advocates Phelister Abdalla and Ruth Morgan Thomas: How “Sex Workers Do It Better” In Advocacy, Community-led Initiatives, and Leadership
Katherine speaks with Phelister Abdalla, of KESWA, the Kenya Sex Work Association, and Ruth Morgan Thomas, of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSPW), about the intersection of sex work, HIV/AIDS, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sep 9, 2022 · 32 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Professor Alan Whiteside: Learning from HIV/AIDS and Covid-19: Understanding the Role of Equity, Economics, Democracy, and the Power of Communities
Jeff Sturchio speaks with Professor Alan Whiteside, Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair emeritus in Global Health Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Sep 2, 2022 · 25 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Former IAS President & International Co-Chair of AIDS 2022 Adeeba Kamarulzaman: “Reengagement” through collaboration and connection
International Co-Chair of AIDS 2022 Adeeba Kamarulzaman: “Reengagement” through collaboration and connection
Aug 26, 2022 · 39 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Dr. Michel Kazatchkine: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Health and Human Rights
Jeff Sturchio speaks with Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, Professor of Medicine at the Universite Rene Descartes in Paris, Special Advisor to UNAIDS for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and a Senior Fellow with the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Aug 19, 2022 · 30 min
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal - UNAIDS’s Eamonn Murphy: "Sounding the Alarm" about Lost Progress for HIV during Covid-19
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine Bliss speaks with Eamonn Murphy, Deputy Executive Director of Programmes at UNAIDS, the Joint UN Program on HIV and AIDS, about the agency’s latest report, “In Danger.”
May 26, 2022 · 22 min
Yana Panfilova: “We Are so Young, but a Lot of People Have This Belief That We Can Change Our Country”
Yana Panfilova, a 24-year-old Ukrainian woman born with HIV, fled Kyiv shortly after Russia’s invasion. She helped found Teenergizer, an organization supported by UNAIDS that seeks to end discrimination against youth in Ukraine living with HIV.
Mar 16, 2022 · 44 min
Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States: Are We Doing Enough to Reach Underserved Populations?
CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with Gregorio Millett, vice president at amfAR about whether we’re doing enough to underserved populations in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Jan 14, 2022 · 33 min
Can We End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic In the United States?
CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with Kathleen McManus, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University of Virginia Medical School, about what still needs to be done to achieve the ambitious goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States.
Dec 15, 2021 · 46 min
How Have the Disruptions of Covid-19 Affected HIV/AIDS Testing, Treatment, and Care Around the World?
Jeffrey L. Sturchio talks with Chris Beyrer about issues at the intersection of the HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics
Nov 4, 2021 · 34 min
To End a Plague: Reflections on America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa
CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with author Emily Bass about her new book, To End a Plague, which chronicles the transnational activism, legislative deal-making, and unprecedented political leadership that led to President George W. Bush’s 2003 announcement of PEPFAR.
May 12, 2021 · 31 min
Prioritizing Children & Adolescents in the Fight Against HIV
Katherine E. Bliss speaks with Agnes Ronan, Head of Programmes and Knowledge at Paediatric Adolescent Treatment Africa
Apr 14, 2021 · 21 min
The First Lady of Namibia on the Urgency of Gender Equality
Janet Fleischman speaks with Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia, about Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on women and girls
Mar 16, 2021 · 22 min
How Covid-19 Threatens Education for Girls in Kenya
In this episode, we’re looking at why education for girls, especially secondary education, is so critical for girls’ health and development, and how Covid-19 threatens their ability to go back to school.
Feb 18, 2021 · 34 min
Espresso Diplomacy: The Rome Action Plan for Pediatric HIV
Even before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, preventive services, diagnostics, and treatments for pediatric HIV lagged far behind the comparable tools for adult populations.
Jan 21, 2021 · 21 min
Voices from Kenya: Economic Empowerment to Prevent HIV
This episode takes us to western Kenya, where new HIV infections among AGYW are among the highest in the country, fueled by social and economic factors. Janet Fleischman brings us three perspectives about the importance, impact, and challenges of reaching vulnerable young women with economic strengthening activities and why these approaches can improve HIV outcomes.
Dec 17, 2020 · 20 min
Prioritizing Pediatric HIV in Kenya
Katherine E. Bliss speaks with Dr. Catherine Ngugi, Head of the National AIDS and STI Control Program in Kenya, on how health care providers are finding ways to continue community engagement and ensure the rollout of new technologies, despite a constrained emergency environment.
Nov 18, 2020 · 21 min
The Promise and Challenge of PrEP for Adolescent Girls and Young Women
In this episode of AIDS 2021, we discuss pre-exposure prophylaxis — PrEP — a critical HIV prevention tool for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in countries with high HIV burdens.

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