The Power of Podcasts

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.

Unlock Your Soul Podcast

https://linktr.ee/unlockyoursoulpodcast?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=6fab4516-7486-42c0-8833-59512c08ae61

AfriWetu

https://linktr.ee/afriwetu?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=9bfae089-edbd-4d3d-9e69-20c32d592c5a

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

Directed and produced by Nick Mutuma at Giraffe @shotbygiraffe. Executive Producer Erik Espera of NewsDocMedia https://newsdocmedia.com/

#podcasts #kenyanpodcasters #africanpodcasts #podcastcreation #africanpov #localstorytelling #uncensoredstorytelling#africanhistory #truthtopower

Are Men Still the Providers in 21st century Kenya?

Y-Isha Raphael asks two young Kenyan content creators how gender social norms are changing in a rapidly-evolving world of instagram and TikTok after COVID lockdowns. And they ask the tough question: are men really still the providers in 21st century Kenya?

Y-Isha Raphael @shesinprogress.sa

Claudia naisabwa @Claudia_naisabwa

Narayan mbugua @_na.rayan _

This podcast was recorded at Shujaaz as part of a collaboration with the Global Listening Project and LVCT Health, with funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  It was produced and directed by Nick Mutuma and the team at Giraffe @shotbygiraffe

https://global-listening.org

https://www.shujaazinc.com

https://lvcthealth.org

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

#menaretheproviders #mentalhealth #kenyayouth #giraffe #shujaazkenya #contentcreation #youthledstories #kenyacontent #storytelling #sprinklesprinkle #nairobiyouth #nairobicontent #socialnorms #genderstereotypes #nairobiinfluencer

Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: Who Keeps Governments Accountable?

To coincide with World AIDS Day 2023, we’re sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS, and Ben is joined by Leora Pillay, Head of HIV Prevention Advocacy and two of its national partners, Dr Lilian Mwakyosi, co-founder of Dare For Progress in Tanzania and Simon Sikwese, Executive Director of Pakachere IHDC in Malawi to discuss newly published  accountability reports demonstrating both how communities keep country leaders accountable, and the key roles communities play in ensuring HIV services reach the people most in need.

 

https://frontlineaids.org

https://www.dareforprogress.org

https://www.pakachere.org

https://unaids.org/en

 

#HIV #AIDS #Prevention #Accountability #community

Peter Piot: Virus Hunter

Eric Goosby and Ben Plumley reflect on an interview with Professor Peter Piot, recorded earlier this year, on how, against a backwash of climate disruption, defining global infectious diseases as security threats - can attract essential  financial and political resources - but can be counter-intuitive & counter-productive if thought of solely as another traditional security challenge. 

Professor Piot is a Belgian microbiologist, founding Executive Director of UNAIDS, former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicjne. He now serves as Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission on COVID-19.

https://wwnorton.com/books/no-time-to-lose/#

The Global Health Diplomats is deeply grateful to the John C Martin Foundation for its sponsorship and support, in honor of the memory of our friend and global health diplomat, John Martin.

Sisters are Creating Content for Themselves

Southern African women are leading the digital media revolution for social change across the continent - from a celebrity, to an activist and a non profit leader. Stef Ndolvu (host of the Ndolvus Uncut), Yvette Raphael (podcast regular and Executive Director of Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA)) and Wame Jallow, the new head of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, share their stories with Ben, and how advances in digital and social media can reach communities other media can’t!

https://youtube.com/@TheNdlovusUncut?si=S8i3WTBTjs-wXVGj

https://www.apha.org.za

https://www.mtvstayingalive.org

https://global-listening.org

#trust #digital #social #media #socialchange #health #wellness #youth #sexualreproductivehealth #HIV #familyplanning #mentalhealth 

“Make We Talk” - Hopes and Dreams for Nigeria’s Young Women

In a feature-length episode, Y-Isha Raphael meets three young women from Lagos, Nigeria who reflect on their hopes and dreams - and how society’s social norms help - and hinder - them in achieving their goals. They explore everything from HIV to family planning, careers - and whether, when they have teenage kids of their own, they will be allowed to have cell phones and use social media!

This episode is produced in association with The Global Listening Project, The MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Frontline AIDS.

https://global-listening.org

https://www.mtvstayingalive.org

https://frontlineaids.org

#societalpreparedness #publichealth #HIV #COVID-19 #humanrights #familyplanning #socialmedia #gendernorms

Learnings from NYC’s COVID Experience

New Yorkers experienced one of the earliest & most deadly urban outbreaks of COVID-19. How did the city cope and what learnings can we take to help societies prepare for future crises? Ben explores these, the Mpox outbreak and other questions with Professor Heidi Larson, Co-founder of the Global Listening Project, and Dr Ashwin Vasan, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Health.

https://global-listening.org

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/index.html

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

https://www.youtube.com/@shotarmpodcast

#COVID-19 #mpox #HIV #preparedness #publichealth #ppr #societalpreparedness

Sharing the Mic: What’s the Future of the AIDS Response Without Affected Communities?

Recently-appointed new Executive Director of Frontline AIDS, Robin Gorna, and Cindy Kelemi, Executive Director of Bonela (Botswana Network on Ethics, Law & HIV/AIDS) meet up with Ben in New York to discuss the future of the global AIDS response, and the pressure on community based organizations to do more on the frontlines - with less resources.

https://frontlineaids.org

https://bonela.org

https://global-listening.org

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

https://www.youtube.com/@shotarmpodcast

#HIV #AIDS #communitybasedorganizations #CBOs #endingAIDS #humanrights #accesstohealthcare

Sharing the Mic: Is the UN Excluding Communities?

Ben got together recently at the UN with the representatives of Frontline AIDS’ community-based organization partners from Cambodia, Ukraine and Namibia to get a grip on why civil society groups are increasingly being excluded from international negotiations and high - level meetings, what we all need to do to rectify this situation - and how Frontline AIDS partners continue to be at the sharp end of innovation and care for people affected by HIV.

Ben’s guests are

  • Choub Sok Chamreun Executive Director KHANA, Cambodia

  • Zahed Islam, Director Supply Management Alliance for Public Health, Ukraine

  • Dr. Ntombi Muchuchuti, Executive Director, ARASA, Namibia

https://frontlineaids.org

https://frontlineaids.org/we-have-an-impact-in/asia-and-eastern-europe/cambodia

https://aph.org.ua/en/home

https://arasa.info

https://global-listening.org

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

https://www.youtube.com/@shotarmpodcast

#UNGA #Communitybasedorganisations #CBOs #civilsociety #highlevelsessions #pandemicspreparedness #tuberculosis #universalhealthcoverage #cambodia #ukraine #namibia

Winnie Byanyima: Social Justice Warrior as Global Health Diplomat

Eric and Ben are back after the summer recess, to reflect on the role global health diplomacy is - and isn’t - playing in an upside down world of geopolitical uncertainty, PEPFAR reauthorization and a fraught UN General Assembly in New York. And their guest in this episode is Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, in an interview recorded at the World Health Assembly in May 2023.

The Global Health Diplomats is deeply grateful to the John C Martin Foundation for its sponsorship and support, in honor of the memory of our friend and global health diplomat, John Martin.