The Frontline AIDS Podcast

'We dare to work under difficult situations'

How do you end AIDS when there's a war on? "We don't stop our job," says Bekele Senbete, Executive Director, Organisation for Social Services, Health and Development (OSSHD).  This week we look at how creativity, compassion, and coffee ceremonies play their part. From AI support in Ukraine and sipping coffee together in Ethiopia, to finding shelter for gender minorities in Lebanon, we learn from Frontline AIDS’ partners working as conflicts rage on. Working in organisations at different stages of war, Bekele Senbete, Executive Director, Organisation for Social Services, Health and Development (OSSHD), Ethiopia, Tetiana Deshko, Associate Director of Programmes, Alliance for Public Health (APH), Ukraine, and Nadia Badran, Executive Director, Society for Inclusion and Development in Communities and Care (SIDC), Lebanon, share how their organisations play a crucial part in their countries humanitarian efforts building on years of community-based care and support. For more information about the link between HIV and gender-based violence, visit: https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/violence-against-women [https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/violence-against-women] Read about an alarming surge in HIV infections  in five countries in the Middle East and North Africa in our new report 'HIV prevention and accountability: A multi-country perspective' - https://frontlineaids.org/report-warns-of-escalating-hiv-epidemic-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/ [https://frontlineaids.org/report-warns-of-escalating-hiv-epidemic-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/] For more information about Alliance for Public Health’s response during the war in Ukraine, visit: https://frontlineaids.org/providing-healthcare-two-years-on-from-the-ukraine-invasion/  [https://frontlineaids.org/providing-healthcare-two-years-on-from-the-ukraine-invasion/%20] For more information about addressing HIV in  humanitarian settings, visit: https://www.beintheknow.org/understanding-hiv-epidemic/context/humanitarian-crises-and-hiv [https://www.beintheknow.org/understanding-hiv-epidemic/context/humanitarian-crises-and-hiv]   Produced and presented by Lola Abayomi, Frontline AIDS and Nick Raistrick, Frontline AIDS  Music by Lee Sparey

The end of choice? Game-changing prevention drugs at risk

There has been a quiet revolution in HIV prevention. It could give women more choice and control to stay HIV-free. And it's under threat. In Tanzania, Kenya, and many other countries affected by the US aid funding cuts, people are going without vital treatment and prevention services, and research programmes to help bring new prevention drugs to thousands of women and girls have been closed. We spoke to Merci Niyibeshaho, a youth advocate from Kenya, and Dr Lilian Benjamin Mwakyosi, Executive Director of DARE for Progress, a youth-led NGO in Tanzania, to find out more. Produced and presented by Lola Abayomi, Frontline AIDS, and Nick Raistrick, Frontline AIDS  Music by Lee Sparey Check out our animation 'HIV prevention and choice: why one size doesn't fit all' https://youtu.be/t7_ld5CNUOs  For more information about the CATALYST study, visit: https://www.mosaicproject.blog/the-catalyst-study-catalyzing-access-to-new-prevention-products-to-stop-hiv/ [https://www.mosaicproject.blog/the-catalyst-study-catalyzing-access-to-new-prevention-products-to-stop-hiv/] Find out more about lenacapavir: https://www.prepwatch.org/products/lenacapavir-for-prep/ [https://www.prepwatch.org/products/lenacapavir-for-prep/] Note: Condoms can be up to 98% effective at preventing pregnancy and can prevent many sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. But they need to be used correctly: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom/how-effective-are-condoms [https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom/how-effective-are-condoms]