AIDS' Existential Moment
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Matt Kavanagh: “To end AIDS and COVID-19, end inequalities.”
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with Matt Kavanagh, Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy, and Knowledge at...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – IAVI’s Mark Feinberg: Innovations in Prevention and Novel Partnerships Are Needed to Sustain the HIV Response
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 30th, Jeff Sturchio spe...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Solange Baptiste: Addressing Structural Barriers to Achieve Equitable Access to HIV Treatment for All
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 30th, Jeff Sturchio spe...
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
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine speaks with Phelister Abdalla...
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
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 31st, Jeff Sturchio spe...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Former IAS President & International Co-Chair of AIDS 2022 Adeeba Kamarulzaman: “Reengagement” through collaboration and connection
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine speaks with Dr. Adeeba Kamaru...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Dr. Michel Kazatchkine: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Health and Human Rights
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 31st, Jeff Sturchio spe...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal - UNAIDS’s Eamonn Murphy: "Sounding the Alarm" about Lost Progress for HIV during Covid-19
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this crossover episode with Pandemic Planet, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine Bliss speaks with Eamonn Murp...
Yana Panfilova: “We Are so Young, but a Lot of People Have This Belief That We Can Change Our Country”
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yana Panfilova, a 24-year-old Ukrainian woman born with HIV, fled Kyiv shortly after Russia’s invasion and is currently based in Berlin with her mot...
Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States: Are We Doing Enough to Reach Underserved Populations?
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with Gregorio (Greg) Millett, vice president at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Resea...
Can We End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic In the United States?
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with Kathleen McManus, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infecti...
How Have the Disruptions of Covid-19 Affected HIV/AIDS Testing, Treatment, and Care Around the World?
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio talks with Chris Beyrer, Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights of the...
To End a Plague: Reflections on America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, CSIS Senior Associate Jeffrey L. Sturchio speaks with author Emily Bass about her new book, To End a Plague, which chronicles the tra...
Prioritizing Children & Adolescents in the Fight Against HIV
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katherine E. Bliss speaks with Agnes Ronan, Head of Programmes and Knowledge at Paediatric Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA), bas...
The First Lady of Namibia on the Urgency of Gender Equality
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Her Excellency Mrs. Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia, has been an outspoken champion for women and girls and gender equality in N...
How Covid-19 Threatens Education for Girls in Kenya
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Students around the world are struggling to return to school in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, but these challenges are especially acute for vulner...
Espresso Diplomacy: The Rome Action Plan for Pediatric HIV
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, preventive services, diagnostics, and treatments for pediatric HIV lagged far behind the comparable to...
Voices from Kenya: Economic Empowerment to Prevent HIV
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Economic empowerment is a critical pathway to preventing HIV in adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and an increasing focus of PEPFAR’s DREAMS...
Prioritizing Pediatric HIV in Kenya
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years Kenya has experienced notable successes in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and initiating children living with HIV on ant...
The Promise and Challenge of PrEP for Adolescent Girls and Young Women
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2021, we discuss pre-exposure prophylaxis — PrEP — a critical HIV prevention tool for adolescent girls and young women (...
“Competing with a Monster”: Women, Girls, and Covid-19 in South Africa
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Janet Fleischman speaks with Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker, the deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Center at the University...
Covid-19 and Young Women: Voices from Kenya
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Janet Fleischman speaks with two women in Kenya about the impact of Covid-19: Maurine Murenga, who is executive director...
Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland: Mobilizing for AIDS2020
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve talks with Mayor Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland since 2014. Oakland is a co-host of the AIDS 2020 conference this summer with ...
Ambassador Deborah Birx: “I don’t find anything impossible”
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Steve and Andrew speak with Ambassador Deborah Birx, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global ...
Deborah Waterhouse: Innovative Technologies to End HIV
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sara talks with Deborah Waterhouse, CEO of ViiV Healthcare. They discuss how partnerships can spur innovation, what achievements we s...
Chris Beyrer: Confronting the Challenges in 2020
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Sara and Andrew speak with Dr. Chris Beyrer, Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Ho...
Does Activism Matter? And How Has it Changed?
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Steve Morrison speaks with Ernest Hopkins, of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. They explore his formative years ...
Dr. Robert Redfield — “Awakenings”
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve and Andrew are joined by Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They discus...
Does HIV Activism Still Matter? Another Perspective
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Steve speaks with Tori Cooper at the eighth Annual Atlanta Summit on Global Health on advocacy. As the founder and Execu...
Does HIV Activism Still Matter?
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AIDS 2020, Stephen Morrison speaks with Mark Heywood on whether HIV advocacy and activism still matters. As a co-founder of SECTION...
South Africa’s Epidemic: Too Big to Fail?
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve Morrison, Sara Allinder, and Andrew Schwartz discuss the uncomfortable paradox surrounding South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. ...
Whither UNAIDS?
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve Morrison, Sara Allinder, and Andrew Schwartz discuss UNAIDS and the selection of Winnie Byanyima as its new executive director....
Jennifer Kates: Can the erosion of financing be reversed?
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sara Allinder sits down with Jen Kates, Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health and HIV Policy at the Kaiser Family Found...
Gunilla Carlsson: What does UNAIDS bring to the table?
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sara Allinder speaks with Gunilla Carlsson, the acting Executive Director for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)...
Helga Ying: A Convergence in Oakland and San Francisco
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve Morrison and Sara Allinder talk to Helga Ying, the Head of Local Office for the AIDS 2020 Conference. Ying discusses her career...
Eric Goosby: HIV in San Francisco, Then and Now
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve Morrison and Andrew Schwartz speak with Dr. Eric Goosby, UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis. They discuss the turbulent 1990 Inte...
Anton Pozniak and Kevin Osborne: Promoting Positive HIV Messaging
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sara Allinder speaks with Anton Pozniak, President, and Kevin Osborne, Executive Director, of the International AIDS Society (IAS). D...
Kenneth Cole: Breaking the Silence
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve Morrison and Andrew Schwartz speak with Kenneth Cole, the iconic fashion designer and HIV/AIDS activist. They discuss the unpre...
Cynthia Carey-Grant: Reproductive Justice in Oakland’s HIV Fight
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steve Morrison speaks to Cynthia Carey-Grant, Oakland co-chair for the AIDS 2020 conference. The two discuss Carey-Grant’s beginnin...
Rep. Barbara Lee: Returning the HIV Spotlight to the Bay Area
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew Schwartz interviews Congresswoman Barbara Lee. She represents California’s 13th district, which includes the city of Oakland...
Anthony Fauci: At the Forefront of the Fight against HIV/AIDS
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Anthony Fauci has had a distinguished career in public service, serving as Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases ...
“Resilience”: An Interview with Monica Gandhi
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode of AIDS 2020, CSIS’s Steve Morrison and Andrew Schwartz speak with Dr. Monica Gandhi, a physician and the San Francisco co...
AIDS 2020
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People living with HIV. Public health experts. Activists, politicians, and pop culture icons. The largest conference on HIV/AIDS is returning to the B...