Px Pulse

Jan 15 2025 48 ep. 19 mins 1.3k
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Px Pulse explores vital topics confronting the field of HIV prevention research. Our monthly podcast will deepen your knowledge and help you “check the pulse” of this fast-paced field and the urgent challenges still ahead. Tune in for interviews, first-person accounts and robust discussion from advocates, researchers, policy-makers and community stakeholders as they take on critical issues facing HIV prevention research today.

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17: Community-Led Monitoring: Transforming the HIV response in Malawi

Jan 15 2025 19 mins  
Community-Led Monitoring has been on the rise in the HIV response. Known as CLM for short, it’s a tactic being championed and implemented to ensure that communities play a direct role in monitoring and improving HIV services. This episode of PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles puts a spotlight on CLM in Malawi, where civil society and communities are successfully using CLM to conne

S5 Ep16: An Advocacy Chronicle on Universal Healthcare in Tanzania, with Atuswege Mwangomale of Sikika

Dec 12 2024 13 mins  
In this episode of PxPulse:The Advocacy Chonicles, Atuswege Mwangomale goes deep on the advocacy work behind the passage of Tanzania’s Universal Healthcare Law. Atu serves as Head of Health Programs for Sikika, a Tanzania-based advocacy organization with a long track record of promoting best practices in governmental financing in the health sector, and advocating for improved hea

S5 Ep15: The Votes Are In: What’s next for the US’ role in global health and HIV prevention? KFF’s Jen Kates and AVAC’s Suraj Madoori lay out the challenges and the priorities in 2025 and beyond.  

Nov 14 2024 20 mins  
In the days and years ahead under a Trump Administration, advocacy for choice, freedom, science, and rights will require deep strategic shifts to protect hard-fought gains in global health generally, and to safeguard policies and programs that advance it. And there will be major implications for the global AIDS response. Joining us to navigate all this and to better understand the

S5 Ep14: PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with Danielle Campbell from PrEP in Black America

Oct 24 2024 15 mins  
In this episode of the Advocacy Chronicles, we put the spotlight on the US, on the dismal statistics on access to PrEP in Black communities, on the state of HIV prevention among Black Americans overall, and the work of one advocacy group—PrEP in Black America (PIBA). Danielle Campbell is one of the founders of PIBA and a long-time advocate for HIV prevention and health equity. Sh

S5 Ep13: Lenacapavir: The case for investing in delivering HIV prevention

Sep 19 2024 31 mins  
The promise of long-acting PrEP has been super-charged this year by studies showing the powerful efficacy of an antiretroviral known as lenacapavir (LEN). This episode of PxPulse goes deep on LEN for PrEP. Recorded just days before Gilead’s announcement that PURPOSE 2 also found very high efficacy, Dr. Flavia Kiweewa, a principal investigator of PURPOSE 1, the first trial to an

S5 Ep12: An Advocacy Chronicle on U=U in SA with Mandisa Dukashe

Aug 29 2024 12 mins  
A list of tactics proved critical; establishing a dedicated working group that brought in diverse expertise and support; ensuring there were educated and committed policy leaders in government; and supporting community members to be ready to lead. Additional Resources to inform your advocacy: 1. Implementing and Scaling Up U=U: A Resource Guide chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpc

S5 Ep11: The Advocacy Chronicles with Ruth Akulu

Jul 18 2024 10 mins  
On this episode of the Advocacy Chronicles: A look at advocacy in Uganda for the Dual Prevention Pill (DPP), a new product combining oral PrEP and oral contraception. Ruth Akulu is a member of the DPP Civil Society Advisory Group, part of the Uganda Country Coordinating Mechanism Board for Global Fund, and a 2022 AVAC Advocacy Fellow. Akulu talks about her work to mobilize regulat

S5 Ep10: PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with SMUG’s Allan Mwasa

Jun 06 2024 16 mins  
In this episode, Nsubuga Allan Mwasa a Ugandan activist, a clinical psychologist, and a representative of Sexual Minorities Uganda, or SMUG, an organization that has been at the forefront of the fight for LGBTQ rights, talks about how advocates are organizing to survive and challenge Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), passed one year ago. A donation to SMUG supports the work of

S5 Ep9: An HIV Vaccine: Looking into the future with Nina Russell

May 13 2024 15 mins  
It’s considered one of the most important and most difficult scientific enterprises in the history of modern medicine—the hunt for an HIV vaccine. It has led to vast knowledge of HIV and the immune system, and to breakthrough technology. But developing an effective HIV vaccine is still out of reach, while HIV incidence remains high in hard-hit places in the world. In this episo

S5 Ep8: PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with APHA’s Yvette Raphael

Apr 16 2024 12 mins  
Our debut episode of the Advocacy Chronicles features Yvette Raphael, the Executive Director of Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA) in South Africa, and a leader in the development of The Choice Manifesto, supported from start to finish by CASPR. As co-chair of the African Women Prevention Community Accountability Board (AWPCAB), Yvette and other board members launched