Podcasts about aids free world

Evan Solomon dives into vaccine equity issues and COVID-19 vaccine patents.  On today's show:  We play Evan's full interview with Sir John Bell, Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford, about Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.  We discuss whether or not Canada's national anthem lyrics need to be changed.  We play Evan's full interview with Transport Minister Omar Alghabra about the new travel restrictions.  Stephen Lewis, the former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and the co-director of the AIDS-Free World organization, explains why he thinks Big Pharma should temporarily lift patent protections on vaccines.  Janice Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, discusses a new pilot program she helped create which will deploy more rapid tests in workplaces.

Paula Donovan is the co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international organization that advocates for institutional change with a focus on reforming powerful institutions’ responses to the social injustices that have allowed HIV to flourish. She has spent more than three decades working to advance women's and children's rights, both within the UN system—with UNICEF, UNIFEM and the Office of the UN Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS in Africa—and as a civil society advocate since she co-founded AIDS-Free World. She launched AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign in 2015 to end impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel, beginning with the military and civilian personnel involved in UN peacekeeping operations. She speaks to us about working to promote mothers' right to have control over infant feeding choices, structural injustices, the fear and stereotypes associated with the HIV crisis in eastern and southern Africa, activist movements, the failure of UN leaders to name and shame bad politicians, violence against women, advocating for the creation of a UN agency devoted to women's issues, the UN System Wide Coherence Agenda, fighting to end impunity in cases of sexual abuse and violence by UN staff, the UN convention on privileges and immunities, and much more. She joins us from Boston, USA.

Deborah Birx is Ambassador-at-large and serves as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy. She chats about creating a 180 PowerPoint slide to convince the White House the Army needed to be part of the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief. She also shares how U.S. dollars have helped save millions of lives in Africa.

AIDS Free World’s Paula Donovan calls for an independent, external investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and other misconduct by UN peacekeepers.

Stephen Lewis, co-founder of the nonprofit organization AIDS-Free World, former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDs in Africa, and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, will discuss "The Millennium Development Goals and Public Health Challenges."

On World AIDS Day, Robin speaks with Dazon Dixon Diallo of SisterLove, Inc. about the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls in the United States; and with Paula Donovan of AIDS-Free World about its impact internationally. Special Guest: the prolific, much-decorated author Ursula K. Le Guin, on why it is that her literature gets classified as "genre" fiction, the hard work of translation and story selection for an anthology, and the changing definitions of feminism. Robin debunks the spin in right-wing propaganda phrases "death tax" and "tax relief," and asks why there is not more outrage over Saudi restrictions on the free movement of women that exceed some of the Taliban's worst, more publicized, offenses. Can it be oil?

Guest: Stephen Lewis Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Women around the world are more likely to be infected with HIV, in part because of their social and economic vulnerability. The stark lack of empowerment of women in many parts of the world indicates the need for men to help protect their gender counterparts from the scourge of HIV. Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, a former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and former deputy executive director of UNICEF, speaks about our need to address the role of sexual violence in furthering the spread of HIV with host Dr. Cathleen Margolin.

Guest: Stephen Lewis Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Healthcare professionals are deeply concerned about HIV/AIDS and the problems presented across the world by the disease. Our voices often carry some influence with those leaders in policy and politics who possess the power to do more for the afflicted and to take preventive steps for those at risk, but our intentions must be strong and clear. What specific messages should we be sending to our world leaders and the powers that be? How can we do more to make known our views? Host Dr. Cathleen Margolin investigates these questions on advocacy and more with Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, a former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and a former deputy executive director of UNICEF.

Guest: Stephen Lewis Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD A passionate belief in the power of advocacy fuels AIDS-Free World, an organization working to maintain accountability among those responsible for addressing the challenges of this most devastating disease. Host Dr. Cathleen Margolin speaks with the co-director of AIDS-Free World, Mr. Stephen Lewis, who also is a former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and a former deputy executive director of UNICEF.