PxPulse is a project of AVAC and our partners in the Coalition to Accelerate and Support Prevention Research (CASPR). PxPulse uses first person reflections and panel discussions to explore vital topics confronting the field of HIV prevention research.
PxPulse features influential voices and long-form episodes where you will hear a variety of perspectives covering different angles on issues affecting global health equity and HIV prevention. Hosted and produced by Jeanne Baron.
PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles is a series that takes you behind the scenes, to learn directly from advocates about new issues, key campaigns, effective tactics and advocacy wins. Hosted by Manju Chatani-Gada.
PxPulse Research Fundamentals offers episodes that explore and explain key concepts in HIV prevention research. Hosted by Jeanne Baron and guest scientists and advocates.
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Episodes
PxPulse: The Votes are In — What’s next for the US’ role in global health and HIV prevention (20:30)
November 14, 2024
In the days, months and years ahead under a new US Presidential Administration, advocacy for choice, freedom, science, and rights will require intentional strategies to protect hard fought gains in HIV treatment and prevention and in global health generally, and to safeguard policies and programs that advance it. And there will be major implications for the global AIDS response.
PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with Danielle Campbell from PrEP in Black America (15:21)
October 21, 2024
In this episode of the Advocacy Chronicles, we’re putting the spotlight on the US, on the dismal statistics on access to PrEP in Black communities, on the state of HIV prevention among Black Americans overall, and the work of one advocacy group—PrEP in Black America (PIBA). Danielle Campbell is one of the founders of PIBA and a long-time advocate for HIV prevention and health equity. She joins the Advocacy Chronicles to talk about PIBA’s call to action for an HIV research agenda that prioritizes the needs of Black communities.
Lenacapavir: The case for investing in delivering HIV prevention (31:41)
September 19, 2024
This episode of PxPulse goes deep on LEN for PrEP. Recorded just days before Gilead’s announcement that PURPOSE 2 also found very high efficacy, Dr. Flavia Kiweewa, a principal investigator of the first trial to announce efficacy, lays out the research findings and what they mean. And Chilufya Kasanda Hampongo of Zambia’s Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign and Mitchell Warren of AVAC talk about how to change a long history of squandered opportunities to get rollout right.
PxPulse: An Advocacy Chronicle on U=U in South Africa with Mandisa Dukashe (12:02)
August 29, 2024
On this episode of PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles, Mandisa Tyadi Dukashe, Treatment Technical Lead at the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) describes her work in helping to inspire and launch a National U=U Campaign in South Africa in 2024.
PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with Ruth Akulu of the Young Women’s HIV Prevention Council (10:40)
July 18, 2024
In this episode, we explore advocacy efforts in Uganda for the Dual Prevention Pill (DPP), a new product that combines oral PrEP and contraception. Discover why the DPP is essential for young women and HIV prevention, and learn about the challenges faced in promoting its use.
PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with SMUG’s Allan Mwasa (14:43)
June 5, 2024
On this episode of the Advocacy Chronicles, we’re speaking with Nsubuga Allan Mwasa, a Ugandan activist, clinical psychologist and an advocate for mental health and LGBTQ+ rights. Allan serves as Strategic Initiatives Manager at Sexual Minorities Uganda, or SMUG, which has been at the forefront of the fight for LGBTQ rights, often facing severe challenges including legal battles and violent opposition.
An HIV Vaccine: Looking into the future with Nina Russell (15:54)
May 10, 2024
In this episode of PxPulse, Dr. Nina Russell, Director of TB & HIV Research and Development for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, talks about where she sees promise in the science, the goals for an HIV vaccine, and why it has an essential role to play, alongside the scale up of PrEP.
PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles with APHA’s Yvette Raphael (12:41)
April 15, 2024
Our debut episode of the Advocacy Chronicles features Yvette Raphael, the Executive Director of Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA) in South Africa, and a leader in the development of The Choice Manifesto, supported from start to finish by CASPR.
Decolonizing Global Health: Dr. Madhukar Pai and COMPASS Africa Tell Us Why and How (32:11)
March 25, 2024
Investing in the long-term success of African leadership is essential to breaking cycles that perpetuate inequity and that stall progress in the HIV response. In this episode, we explore why and how the decisions that shape global health must be made by those facing the greatest risks. As the world evaluates the pandemic response and debates on decolonizing global health gain momentum, equity in global health has never been more urgent.
Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating People in HIV Research: What you need to know (34:28)
November 7, 2023
In this episode of Px Pulse, AVAC’s Manju Chatani-Gada takes us through conversations with a trial participant who became pregnant, researchers, policymakers and donors to understand why this population gets excluded, the impact it has and what to do about it.
PEPFAR at 20: Keeping the promise (23:16)
September 6, 2023
Considered one of the greatest US foreign policy and global development achievements of the century, the program has saved upwards of 25 million lives since it launched in 2003. But PEPFAR is marking its 20th anniversary while fighting for its future.
Evolving Strategies for an HIV Vaccine: One researcher explains where the field is going and why? (21:23)
May 17, 2023
In this episode of our Px Pulse podcast, Evolving Strategies for an HIV Vaccine: One researcher explains where the field is going and why?, Dr. Katy Stephenson explores the implications of recent trial results, the big questions driving next generation vaccine development, and new strategies underway in early phase research.
LGBTQIA+ Advocacy in Uganda: Facing down fear and fighting for justice (24:19)
April 11, 2023
In March 2023, the Ugandan Parliament moved forward broad-reaching legislation to further criminalize LGBTQIA+ people. This podcast features Ugandan advocates and AVAC partners discussing the specifics of how these attacks have gained momentum and their ties to US-based religious extremists. The advocates discuss what needs to happen next.
PPPR Advocacy 101: Find out what it means to you (19:05)
March 28, 2023
Over the coming months, global leaders will make key decisions about several initiatives to prepare for the next pandemic. What they commit to and how much they will spend, and how well these plans incorporate equity as a principle across all of these agreements, is in question.
The Shape of Pandemic Preparedness is Being Decided. Now is the Time for Collective Action (15:14)
March 2, 2023
Health leaders around the world are in the midst of creating a new architecture to deal with pandemics. In this episode of Px Pulse, Chris Collins, the CEO and President at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, talks about what’s at stake, which policy-makers get it already, why this year matters so much, and what advocates can do about it.