A Shot in the Arm Podcast

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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 not yet eliminated? A Shot in the Arm Podcast is produced by NewsDoc Media and Hunuvat Global, and we explore these and other pressing questions, with scientists and advocates from around the world making the tough decisions right now.

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All About ViiV: An Interview with CEO Deborah Waterhouse at CROI 2024

Mar 13 2024 38 mins  
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 they have much in common beyond b

Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: International Women's Day - Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.

Mar 07 2024 51 mins  
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 Director of the Preclusion

PEPFAR: An HIV Marshall Plan Dissected

Mar 03 2024 37 mins  
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 also reinforces US soft power abroa

Uganda’s Legalized Persecution of LGBTQ+ / Personal & Public Health Threats

Feb 18 2024 53 mins  
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 supporters. He points to the outsiz

The Global Trust Crisis with 70,000 People from 70 Countries

Feb 14 2024 63 mins  
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 about people’s sense of prepare

How US Domestic Abortion Decisions Affect the Rights & Health of People Globally

Feb 11 2024 48 mins  
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. https://www.ipas.org https://www.s

Focus on PEPFAR

Feb 11 2024 2 mins  
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 poster child for bipartisanship i

How Prepared is Japanese Society for the Next Crisis?

Dec 29 2023 26 mins  
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 societal preparedness wit

Lagos: Are Men Still the Providers in the 21st Century?

Dec 22 2023 28 mins  
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) are Umura Nana, Richard Precious and

The Power of Podcasts

Dec 03 2023 42 mins  
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 of our digital feeds these days. U