114 episodes

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.

A Shot in the Arm Podcast Ben Plumley

    • Science
    • 5.0 • 15 Ratings

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.

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

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

    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 both being Brits growing up in the 70s and 80s, from being students of the humanities choosing to make careers in health, to their favorite pop music. 

    https://viivhealthcare.com
    https://www.unaids.org/en
    https://www.who.int/health-topics/hiv-aids
    https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/default.html
    https://au.int/en/sa/oid

    #ViiV #pharma #HIV #AIDS #treatment #Prevention #PrEP #dualtherapy #longacting #injectables #globalaccess #globalequity #discrimination #positiveaction #womenleaders #IWD 

    • 38 min
    Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.

    Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.

    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 Project. 

    https://frontlineaids.org
    https://www.evanigeria.org
    https://apha.org.za
    https://www.thepreclusionproject.org
    https://www.unaids.org/en
    https://www.state.gov/pepfar
    https://www.project2025.org

    #IWD #HIV #AIDS #pepfar #womensrights #antiabortion #forcedbirth #neocolonialism #reproductivehealth #choiceagenda

    • 51 min
    PEPFAR: An HIV Marshall Plan Dissected

    PEPFAR: An HIV Marshall Plan Dissected

    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 abroad. So why would politicians want to scupper it?

    https://www.state.gov/pepfar
    https://apha.org.za
    https://www.emilybass.club

    Find out more about Emily’s book “To End A Plague”,
    Check out our 2022 interview with her https://youtu.be/YSzO3NWQeI0?si=6oKAfO4aoazQd8EO

    #pepfar #HIV #AIDS #stigma #discrimination #Prevention #treatment #bipartisanship #US #Congress

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

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

    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 outsize funding and influence of Western, particularly North American, right-wing Christian evangelists. The conversation serves, not only as an insight into the growing anti-rights movement that targets women’s as well as LGBTQ+ rights, but also a call to action to other pro-rights African leaders to stand up and be counted. How can the end of AIDS be achieved by 2030, if disproportionately affected communities are persecuted and driven underground?

    https://smuginternational.org
    https://www.state.gov/pepfar
    https://www.unaids.org/en
     https://frontlineaids.org
    https://global-listening.org
    https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-watch-international
     
    #LGBTQ #Uganda #anti-homosexualitylaw #HIV #AIDS #marginalisedcommunities #neocolonialism #extremism #Africansolidarity 

    • 53 min
    The Global Trust Crisis with 70,000 People from 70 Countries

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

    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 preparedness for future crises. Coming just before the Munich Security Conference, Co-host Ben Plumley catches up with GLP founder, Professor Heidi Larson in Bengaluru, along with friend of the podcast, Prasada Rao JVR, former Health Secretary of India, and Professor Balaji Parthasarthy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, to explore why we are witnessing a global trust crisis - and why it its urgent for human security to address this. 

    https://global-listening.org
    https://www.iiitb.ac.in
    https://securityconference.org/en
    https://securityconference.org/en/publications/munich-security-report-2024

    #security #humansecurity #globalsecurity #globalhealthsecurity #pandemicpreparedness #climatedisruption #conflict #trust #india #munichsecurityconference 

    • 1 hr 3 min
    How US Domestic Abortion Decisions Affect the Rights & Health of People Globally

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

    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.state.gov/pepfar
    https://www.emilybass.club/book
    https://www.unaids.org/en

    #pepfar #HIV #AIDS #SRHR #abortion #safeabortion #RoeVsWade #LGBT

    • 48 min

Customer Reviews

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15 Ratings

15 Ratings

SeattleSean ,

Great show: shot in the arm

Enjoy hearing the most current topics in public health presented with a curious inquisitive mind. Ben Plumley is a dazzling host

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