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AIDS’ Existential Moment

HIV/AIDS has reached an existential moment. As Covid-19 continues to pose geopolitical risks, there is a threat that the progress made over the past 40 years in the fight to end the AIDS pandemic will be undone. Covid-19 has exacerbated social and economic inequalities, placed further stress on weak health systems, and above all, highlighted the urgent need to strengthen global health security. In managing these dual pandemics, the global health community must adapt, protect, and integrate approaches in order to sustain momentum toward ending HIV/AIDS, while continuing to respond to Covid-19. AIDS’ Existential Moment will explore the progress needed toward reaching the new targets outlined in 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS; the current geopolitical climate; why it is still important to prioritize HIV/AIDS; and what can be done to bolster health security in low- and middle-income countries. Hosted by J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine Bliss, and Jeffrey Sturchio at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

 

AIDS’ Existential Moment is produced by Liz Pulver and Mark Donaldson.

Podcast Series by J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine E. Bliss, Janet Fleischman, and Jeffrey Sturchio

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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.

Podcast Episode by Jeffrey Sturchio — October 7, 2022

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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.

Podcast Episode by Katherine E. Bliss — September 16, 2022

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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.  

Podcast Episode by Jeffrey Sturchio — August 26, 2022

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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.”

Podcast Episode by Katherine E. Bliss — August 19, 2022

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