[video] Is Kenya on track to end TB by 2030?

[podcast] Is Kenya on track to end TB in next 88 months?


This podcast features Evaline Kibuchi, noted #endTB activist and leader, and Chief National Coordinator of Stop TB Partnership Kenya. She is a global health advocate with a key focus on TB with over ten years in advocacy.

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[video] Taiwan's laws for same sex marriage and co-adoption rights give hope

[podcast] Laws for same sex marriage and adoption rights give hope in Taiwan


This podcast features Jennifer Lu, Director for Asia Programmes, Outright International. She is a dedicated activist for LGBTQIAP+ rights and political reform movements for over 20 years nationally and internationally. She is a social worker, lesbian feminist, author, and Taiwanese. Before joining Outright, Jennifer was Executive Director of Taiwan Equality Campaign, known as Marriage Equality Coalition Taiwan - a leading organization that pushed marriage equality in Taiwan.

She was speaking as part of the #GenderEquality Talks #GETalksLive (season-2) #90for90 #GlobalVoices series.

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[video] Getting on track to #endTB & #endMalaria is a human rights imperative

[podcast] Ending TB and malaria are human rights imperative, says Aloyce Urassa

This podcast features Aloyce P Urassa from Tanzania, who is a public health scientist specialising in implementation and health systems research with a background in health laboratory sciences. He is currently the chairperson of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Youth Advisory Council, a Board member of Rotarians Against Malaria - Global, and a Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) speaker.

He was speaking as part of the #EndTB Dialogues (season-2) #90for90 #GlobalVoices series.

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[video] Transforming TB Diagnosis | Dr Madhukar Pai's guest lecture at KMC

Thai key population-led organisations give hope for sustainable HIV financing


When international HIV funding decreased, Thai organisations found new domestic funding and developed social enterprises

Early and accurate TB diagnosis is the gateway to #endTB pathway



[हिन्दी] If we are to end TB, then we have to find every person with TB and offer accurate and timely diagnosis, treatment, care and support. In other words, we have to eliminate ‘delayed or missed diagnosis’ by making “early and accurate TB diagnosis” a norm, before we can further embark on the #endTB pathway with full force. By doing so, not only people with TB will get treated early on, but we might also have a better shot at breaking the chain of infection transmission.
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Long walk to transgender rights and gender equality

Although governments have committed to achieve gender equality by 2030, yet the progress is way off the mark. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres had recently said that it will take another 300 years to achieve full gender equality. More worrying is the fact that transgender and other gender diverse people, often slip on the blind spot when many governments refer to gender equality and see it with sex and gender binary lens (man and woman, or male and female).
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Mumbai shows triaging those with advanced HIV disease in government centres is feasible

published in NAM aidsmap | 8 August 2023

88% of those who received advanced HIV care package survived

published in NAM aidsmap | 8 August 2023

End stockouts of TB drugs and other supplies if we are to #endTB: says Peter Ngo'la Owiti

[podcast] TB drug and other stock-outs are not acceptable if we are to #endTB in Kenya

This Podcast features Peter Ngo’la Owiti, who is on the Executive Committee Board of Stop TB Partnership, and also represents communities on Medicines Patent Pool. He is also the Executive Director of the Wote Youth Development Projects, Kenya.

Listen to his insights on why stock-outs of medicines for drug-sensitive TB, essential needs which are required to refer patients, or of cartridges to run nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) molecular diagnostics such as Gene Xpert are not acceptable.

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WHO award shines spotlight on Thailand's statistical agency and tobacco control

Tobacco industry has used deception and lies to market its deadly tobacco products and lure children and young people to killer addiction over the decades. But it was only data, science and evidence that provided rock solid ground to health justice and corporate accountability advocates worldwide to expose the nefarious designs of tobacco industry, and advance historic progress in form of global tobacco treaty, as well as range of domestic laws and its enforcement.
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[podcast] Connect the dots: Neuroscience of effective empathy, gender inequality, CEDAW


This podcast features Michaela Guthridge, a noted gender and women's human rights advocate, who connects the dots between effective #empathy and gender inequality. She also shares how it can help advance progress on commitments enshrined in legally-binding treaties such as CEDAW.

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[video] Connect the dots: Neuroscience of effective empathy, gender inequality, CEDAW

[podcast] Walk the talk on "no one is left behind" when it comes to all goals and targets of SDGs and transgender peoples

This podcast features Nachale Boonyapisomparn or Hua who is a trans woman activist who has founded powerful, successful support and advocacy groups and lasting networks to support health and human rights of transgender and LGB people locally and globally. Sisters and Thai TGA (Foundation of Transgender Alliance for Human Rights) are two transgender peoples-led organisations in Thailand - both of whom were co-founded by Hua, along with Asia Pacific Transgender Network. She is currently with Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

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[video] #WalkTheTalk on #NoOneLeftBehind: Deliver on all #SDGs goals and targets for transgender people

Strong local actions are pivotal to reduce NCDs, TB and tobacco use in Bangladesh


Unless global goals do not become a reality in the lives of every person worldwide, we will fail to deliver on those promises. Local actions are key. That is why the Mayors of several municipalities in Bangladesh and other local government leaders and experts had united to form the Bangladesh Mayors’ Alliance for Healthy Cities in 2019.
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[podcast] WHO Awardee Thai NSO underlines role of data and survey in tobacco control

This podcast features Dr Piyanuch Wuttisorn, Director General of National Statistical Office of Thailand (TNSO), which was conferred upon the coveted 2023 World Health Organization (WHO) Director General's WNTD Award.

Dr Piyanuch has also served earlier as Inspector-General, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, Thailand; Director, Social Data-based and Indicator Development Office, Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council; Senior Advisor in Plan and Policy for Director of the International Cooperation office, Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council; and Secretary-General, Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission of Thailand.

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[video] WHO Awardee Thai National Statistical Office spotlights data to #EndTobacco

Midway to Agenda 2030: Why are we off the track on gender equality?

With only 90 months left to fulfil the Agenda 2030 promises made by our governments 90 months ago, we are far off the track. A United Nations report released this week shows that out of the 114 countries studied, not one has achieved gender equality. Over 99% women and girls live in a country with low women’s empowerment and a big gender gap. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 also had painted a grim picture, including on the progress made on delivering the goals for gender equality, which is crucial to achieving each of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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[podcast] If governments truly believe in gender equality, then why are people in sex work on blindspot?

This Podcast features Meena Seshu, a force for change on gender and development justice, especially for sex workers, dalit women, and other communities which are often 'left behind' in development discourses. She founded SANGRAM and also helped create VAMP (Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad) - a collective of people in sex work.

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[podcast] Gender-affirming hormonal therapy for transgender people: When will it be a reality for those in-need?

This Podcast features Dr Jakkrapatara Boonruang (Dr Fair), who is a research physician at Thailand's Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI). He shares insights about gender affirming hormonal therapy for transgender people, barriers to its access, and recommendations on how to scale it up with inclusion, rights, ethics, people-centric approaches, and science.
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[video] If governments truly believe in #GenderEquality then why are people in #SexWork on blindspot?

[video] Gender-affirming hormonal therapy for transgender people: When will it become a reality for those in-need?

[podcast] Transgender rights are human rights, asserts Nhuun Yodmuang of APTN

This Podcast features Nhuun Wannapong Yodmuang of Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN), who is a Thai transgender woman and an advocate with an academic background in International Human Rights Law. She had worked with local and regional organisations on trans rights in the context of several countries in Asia, engaging with international advocacy spaces such as United Nation bodies.

She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, CNS Special Correspondent, who is among those journalists who will be onsite at the upcoming Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda.

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[podcast] Is Cambodia on track to deliver on promises of sexual and reproductive health and rights?

This Podcast features Dr Saphon Somolireasmey, Associate Executive Director of the Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia (RHAC). With her 15 years of working in research field and communities supports, Somolireasmey is strongly passionate in continuing her research field, particularly in gender lensed reflecting Cambodian social contexts.

She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, CNS Special Correspondent and development communication professional, who is among those journalists who will be onsite at the upcoming Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda.

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[podcast] Bodily autonomy and sexual health and rights are vital to advance progress towards SDGs

This Podcast features Marevic Parcon, Executive Director at Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), a southern-based global network that connects and strengthens movements for the promotion and advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and justice. She led the implementation of the Safe Abortion Advocacy Project that enhanced the capacity of grassroots organisations to undertake safe abortion advocacy and established national networks to address abortion stigma at multiple levels.

She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, CNS Special Correspondent and development communication professional, who is among those journalists who will be onsite at the upcoming Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda.

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[podcast] Development justice is the bedrock for gender justice, food sovereignty and global peace


This Podcast features Azra Talat Sayeed, a globally recognised political activist and actively involved with advancing women’s and peasant rights. She has made important contributions to achieving gender justice and building peasant movements not only in Pakistan but also in Asia Pacific and worldwide. Azra Sayeed is the founder and Executive Director of Roots for Equity, a Karachi-based organisation that works with the most vulnerable and marginalized communities that include small and landless farmers, women and religious minorities. She is the Chairperson of Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) as well as of the International Women's Alliance, which is a grassroots alliance of women’s organizations, networks and individuals working to advance the global anti-imperialist, and progressive women’s movement. She has also served as Vice Chairperson of The International League of Peoples Struggle.

She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, CNS Special Correspondent and development communication professional, who is among those journalists who will be onsite at the upcoming Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda. 

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[video] Transgender rights are human rights

[video] Cambodia progressed on sexual and reproductive health and rights but more efforts warranted to deliver on SDGs

[video] Bodily autonomy and sexual health and rights are vital to advance progress towards SDGs

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