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[podcast] Finding TB is central to ending TB: Prof Kogie Naidoo of CAPRISA
May 01, 2024 03:59This podcast features Prof Kogie Naidoo, Head of the Treatment Research Programme, and Deputy Director of Centre of the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). She was awarded the coveted 2013 Union Scientific Prize for her contribution to advancing TB science worldwide. She is in conversation with Ashok Ramsarup who is among the senior-most journalists of South Africa and has served South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as senior Producer of Lotus FM Newsbreak; and other me...
[podcast] Dr Bornali Datta shares high impact journey of Medanta vans reaching the unreached with TB services
April 23, 2024 06:03Listen to this podcast featuring Dr Bornali Datta, Director, Respiratory Medicine at Medanta, and Project Lead of Mission TB Free Haryana. She shares insights of the incredible and high-impact journey of Medanta vans since 2015 onwards of how they are reaching the unreached with WHO recommended and quality assured TB diagnostics and services in Haryana, Delhi, and other parts of India. She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS founder Managing Editor and Chairperson of Global Antimicro...
[podcast] TB diagnosis and treatment is free but people face unacceptable catastrophic costs, diagnostic delays
April 07, 2024 04:29This World Health Day Podcast features Dr Susmita Chatterjee, Programme Lead - Health Economics, Health Systems Science, The George Institute for Global Health, India. She is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales; DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Clinical and Public Health Intermediate Fellow; and Professor, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal University. Read this article which is referenced in the podcast "Deconstructing the economic burden of tuberculosis ...
[podcast] TB science simplified
March 31, 2024 07:02TB Science Simplified podcast: Prof Urvashi B Singh explains TB diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Prof Urvashi is in-charge of Tuberculosis Division, and Professor, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS Delhi) is speaking in End TB Dialogues. She is also the Co-Chair of Diagnostic Committee, National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP, Government of India, and member of Diagnostic Committee, India TB Research Consortium, Indian Council of Medi...
[podcast] Find all TB → treat all TB → prevent all TB → End TB | Shobha Shukla speaks
March 31, 2024 06:27Listen to this exclusive podcast on the theme: "Find all TB → treat all TB → prevent all TB → End TB" produced by CNS head Shobha Shukla. This is an exclusive and powerful science- and evidence-backed narrative on why critical building blocks of #EndTB agenda are: #FindAllTB, #TreatAllTB and #PreventAllTB - grounded in people-centred and human-rights-based and gender transformative approaches. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail...
[podcast] Science has gifted us tools to find, treat and prevent TB but are we using them?
March 08, 2024 11:05This podcast features Professor (Dr) Rajendra Prasad, who was conferred upon the coveted Dr BC Roy National Award by the President of India; and has been the President of all important respiratory medicine professional associations such as National College of Chest Physicians, Indian Chest Society, or Indian College of Allergy, Asthma and Applied Immunology. Earlier he has been the Director of Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute in Delhi and UP Rural Institute of Medical Sciences in Safai; fo...
[podcast] With determination and persistence we can transform #EndTB dreams into reality
March 01, 2024 14:07This podcast features Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva who is speaking in CNS INSPIRE series, which features those who have done commendable work in helping shape responses to improve public health and gender equity. Dr Sachdeva has earlier led India's TB and AIDS programmes, has been the former Southeast Asia Regional Director of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), and currently leads Molbio Diagnostics as President - Chief Medical Officer. He is in conversation...
[podcast] Why cannot all people in need have access to best of TB tests and treatments?
February 29, 2024 12:21In this podcast, Manitosh Ghildiyal, TB and HIV human rights activist, shares his personal lived experience with HIV as well as TB - and how he is advocating for people-centred responses to end TB and end AIDS. Why cannot all people-in-need get better tests and new shorter and more effective treatments for TB? he asks. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Pla...
[podcast] Ending inequity is imperative to end TB and deliver on #HealthForAll
February 16, 2024 09:25This podcast features Sumit Mitra, a thought leader on reaching the unreached with best of evidence-based diagnostics and health services, and President of Molbio Diagnostics (makers of Truenat). He is speaking at the World Social Forum (WSF 2024) in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a session entitled "Ending inequity is imperative if we are to end TB and deliver on health for all." This WSF 2024 session is being held in Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcast...
[podcast] When we can reach the moon then why cannot we reach the unreached people in the communities with health services?
January 20, 2024 04:28This podcast features Dr Rennis Davis Kizhakkepeedika, President of Association of Pulmonologists Thrissur; Professor and Head, Pulmonary Medicine Dept and Vice Principal, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences; and part of lead organising committee of 78th National Conference of TB and Chest Diseases (NATCON, 2-4 February 2024 in Thrissur). Dr Rennis was on the panel for #EndTB Dialogues. For more information on NATCON in Thrissur (2-4 February 2024) please visit: www.natcon2023thrissur.com ...
[podcast] Youth and gender-based violence: Challenges and solutions
January 05, 2024 14:39Listen to this podcast featuring an engaging discussion on youth and gender-based violence: challenges and solutions. Panelists include Kirthi Jayakumar, who is part of the Gender Security Project and Head of Community Engagement at World Pulse (India); Hafsah Muheed, intersectional feminist and human rights advocate from Sri Lanka; Tanmaya Kshirsagar, Indian Classical Vocalist, Writer & Academic and an intersectional feminist; Rita Widiadana, former Editor, The Jakarta Post, Indonesia; Kal...
[podcast] Women migrant workers: Heroes of remittance or survivors of violence?
December 13, 2023 15:01This episode of Gender Equality Talks Podcast Series, puts spotlight on issues faced by women migrant workers in Asia. Three feminist journalists-editors from India, Indonesia and Nepal, share their insights: Rita Widiadana, former Editor of The Jakarta Post (Indonesia); Kalpana Acharya, Editor-in-Chief of Health TV Online (Nepal) and former President of Health Journalists Forum Nepal; and Shobha Shukla, founder Managing Editor of CNS. The “feminisation” of migration is most visible in Asi...
[podcast] Is Zimbabwe on track to Find.Treat.All TB?
October 22, 2023 03:32This podcast features Tariro Kutadza who is a noted Zimbabwean HIV and TB advocate, and has helped shape HIV and TB advocacy agendas at national, regional and global level. She is an elected member of the Zimbabwe Country Coordinating Mechanism and Southern Africa Regional Coordinating Mechanism, representing TB-affected communities in the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (The Global Fund) and Advisory Panel of International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)....
[podcast] Making a difference in Nigeria with innovative new tools to find TB
October 13, 2023 12:47This Podcast features Dr Sheshi Michael, who is a seasoned infectious Diseases expert, supporting the National TB programme in Nigeria at both National and sub-national levels. Currently is the KNCV Nigeria's Director, Private Sector TB Initiative. He is a member of the National drug-resistant TB Concilium of experts in Nigeria. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, I...
[podcast] Georgia's journey of reducing TB and drug-resistant TB rates
September 23, 2023 03:09This podcast features Dr Nino Lomtadze, Head of Surveillance and Strategic Planning Department at Georgia's National TB Programme. Georgia was among the high MDR-TB burden countries till 2016 after which TB rates (including those of drug-resistant forms) have been dropping. TB decline has been 6-7% in recent years. TB surveillance and use of latest TB diagnostics and treatments have resulted in reduction in TB rates in Georgia. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google...
[podcast] Would Seychelles be the first African country to end TB?
September 20, 2023 09:35This podcast features Dr Louine Morel, Medical Registrar, Communicable Disease Control unit, Ministry of Health of Seychelles, who was on the panel for #EndTB Dialogues (season-2), #90for90 #GlobalVoices Series. Seychelles 100% funds its fight against tuberculosis and has managed to keep TB under bay. Although there has a rise in notified cases in the recent years. Listen to more insights from Dr Morel. Seychelles is likely to be the first country in Africa to end TB, hopes Dr Louine Morel....
[podcast] Vietnam study: 68% drop in TB if we screen all (not just those with symptoms) and link to standard treatment and care pathway
September 16, 2023 12:40Vietnam study shows 68% drop in new TB cases if we screen everyone (not just those with symptoms) and link them with standard treatment, care and support pathway. It is important to underline that Vietnam study had deployed WHO recommended molecular tests upfront to confirm TB (and rifampicin-resistant TB) and link those diagnosed with active TB disease to standard care. This podcast features study co-author Associate Professor Dr Nguyen Binh Hoa, who is also the Vice Manager of Vietnam Na...
[podcast] Will people demand rights-based WHO recommended TB services and hold governments to account?
September 16, 2023 06:02This podcast features Eloisa 'Louie' Zepeda-Teng, a TB survivor and powerful advocate, and founder of TB People Philippines. She survived one of the rare and serious forms of TB, due to which lost her vision but rose to build people-power to demand people-centred health responses which respect disability rights and inclusion. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy ...
[podcast] Will WHO-recommended TB diagnostics and treatments become a reality for all?
September 15, 2023 12:03This podcast features Ani Herna Sari, Chair of Rekat Peduli Indonesia Foundation (TB survivor organisation), who calls upon the governments to ensure access to best of WHO recommended diagnostics, treatments, care and support, and prevention services for everyone. Ani was a lecturer in one of the most prestigious academic institutions in Indonesia before the TB bacteria changed her life course, and led her to found Rekat Peduli Indonesia for larger good. Listen to this podcast on Apple Pod...
[podcast] Detecting TB early and accurately is critical part of #EndTB strategy: Know more about TB laboratory on wheels in Timor-Leste
September 14, 2023 09:44This podcast features Dr Arvind Mathur, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Timor-Leste. Detecting the TB cases and the diagnostics are very critical part of the #EndTB Strategy, says Dr Mathur. He shares insights on range of ways we can increase new TB case detection by using existing diagnostic technologies in local contexts, rollout of best treatment regimens for TB, and care and support needs. He shines a spotlight on one of the best examples of reaching out and serving t...
[podcast] Fighting TB one 'Barangay' at a time: New decentralised & point-of-care tools making a difference
September 09, 2023 10:16This podcast features Dr Samantha Tinsay, Municipal Health Officer, Bantayan Municipality, Cebu, Philippines, who shares her team's experience of deploying new TB diagnostic tools (ultra-portable x-ray of Fujifilm, and molecular test Truenat of Molbio Diagnostics) in Bantayan islands or islets. More importantly. she shares the context how these new tools (xray and molecular test Truenat) were taken on a 'pump boat' (a utility boat in Philippines) from one islet to another for active case f...
[podcast] To detect TB is to fight TB: Diagnosis is critical entry point to TB care pathway
September 09, 2023 03:22This podcast features Sumit Mitra, President of Global Sales and Marketing, Molbio Diagnostics, who asserts "To detect TB is to fight TB." Diagnosis is critical entry point to TB care pathway and towards #EndTB, he says. As per Government's 2021 and 2022 India TB Reports, Molbio's Truenat molecular test, was the most used molecular test in India to diagnose TB among those with presumptive TB, and detect drug resistance upfront. It is currently rolled out in over 40 countries - most of them ...
[podcast] Multi-disease, point-of-care and decentralised molecular testing should be the norm, says Sriram Natarajan
September 08, 2023 03:27This podcast features Sriram Natarajan, cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Molbio Diagnostics - who leads the team behind Truenat - the only World Health Organization (WHO) approved and recommended point-of-care and decentralised molecular test for TB globally. Timely and correct diagnosis helps to avert untimely deaths, and reduce human suffering, says Sriram Natarajan. For infectious diseases, timely and correct diagnosis helps break the chain of infection transmission. Diagnosis re...
[podcast] Global peace is integral to end TB goal, says Dr Hiam Yaacoub of Lebanon
September 02, 2023 06:48This podcast features Dr Hiam Yaacoub, who has been the National TB Programme Manager of Lebanon since 2012. She is a senior specialist in respiratory medicine and TB at the Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon since 1994 onwards. A World Health Organization WHO TB and drug-resistant TB Expert, Dr Hiam Yaacoub is a noted part of Lebanese Pulmonary Society and Lebanese Order of Physicians since 1993. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, P...
[podcast] Is Indonesia on track to end TB by 2030? Insights from Dr Imran Pambudi
September 01, 2023 12:36This podcast features Dr Imran Pambudi, Director of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Indonesia Ministry of Health. He is also a senior Medical Faculty of Airlangga University and ASEAN Institute of Health Development Program, Mahidol University, Thailand. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, and other podcast streaming platforms. Thanks...
[podcast] Ghana's 100% TB molecular testing is vital yet a long way to end TB goalpost
September 01, 2023 05:02This podcast features Dr Yaw Adusi-Poku, Programme Manager of National TB Control, Ghana Health Service. Dr Yaw Adusi-Poku is a senior Physician Specialist (public health) too. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, and other podcast streaming platforms. Thanks CNS team
[podcast] Is Kenya on track to end TB in next 88 months?
August 31, 2023 14:52This 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. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, and other podcast streaming platforms. Thanks CNS team
[podcast] Laws for same sex marriage and adoption rights give hope in Taiwan
August 30, 2023 13:14This 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 speaki...
[podcast] Ending TB and malaria are human rights imperative, says Aloyce Urassa
August 29, 2023 04:13This 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. ...
[podcast] TB drug and other stock-outs are not acceptable if we are to #endTB in Kenya
August 02, 2023 15:02This 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 acce...
[podcast] Connect the dots: Neuroscience of effective empathy, gender inequality, CEDAW
July 28, 2023 08:14This 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. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, and other podca...
[podcast] Walk the talk on "no one is left behind" when it comes to all goals and targets of SDGs and transgender peoples
July 26, 2023 11:56This 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 ...
[podcast] WHO Awardee Thai NSO underlines role of data and survey in tobacco control
July 20, 2023 15:57This 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 Dir...
[podcast] If governments truly believe in gender equality, then why are people in sex work on blindspot?
July 18, 2023 05:36This 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. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, Ca...
[podcast] Gender-affirming hormonal therapy for transgender people: When will it be a reality for those in-need?
July 18, 2023 05:22This 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. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry...
[podcast] To achieve gender equality, stop all conflicts, and ensure development justice for all, including indigenous and LGBTQIAP+ peoples
July 11, 2023 08:07This Podcast features Matcha Phornin, an ethnic minority/ indigenous lesbian feminist, and a human rights defender from the Chiangmai - Tak - Maehongson border of Thailand - Myanmar where an armed conflict is still ongoing. She is the founder and executive director of Sangsan Anakot Yawachon, an organization that works to advancing the rights of the Indigenous people especially LGBTQIAP+, women and girls. She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, CNS Special Correspondent and development ...
[podcast] Integrated development justice for LGBTQIAP+ people is vital
July 11, 2023 02:15This Podcast features Darvesh Singh Yadavendra, founder member of a community-based organization - Pahal Foundation, who works on the health, social justice and inclusion and rights of gay men and transgender community. He 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. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Go...
[podcast] Long walk to gender equality and human rights in Arab and African nations
July 08, 2023 10:14This podcast features Gozde Ones of RAWSA (Regional Advocacy for Women’s Sustainable Advancement Alliance for African & Arab States). She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, journalist, CNS Special Correspondent, and development communication professional, and one of those media actors who will be onsite at the upcoming Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Hima...
[podcast] Transgender rights and gender justice: Translate promises into realities
July 08, 2023 10:01This Podcast features Abhina Aher, a leading #ForceForChange for gender equality and transgender rights and justice. She is in conversation with Sumita Thapar, CNS Special Correspondent, and development communication professional, and one of those media actors who will onsite at the upcoming Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcas...
[podcast] Taiwan's leadership on making undetectable equals untransmittable is vital to #endAIDS and #humanrights
July 05, 2023 09:55Listen to this Podcast featuring Fletcher Yi-Chi Chiu who is the Director of Communications of Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights Advocacy Association of Taiwan (PRAA Taiwan) and also serves as Asia Pacific Board Member of Y+Global (Global Network of Young People Living with HIV). Fletcher is in conversation with CNS founder and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla, in lead up to Women Deliver 2023 and International HIV Science Congress of International AIDS Society in Brisbane, Australia. Listen to th...
[podcast] Why has Thailand jolted its community-led HIV response as well as other disease prevention and health promotion?
February 10, 2023 09:04This podcast features Natthakarn Laohacharoensombat from MPLUS Foundation Thailand, who explains in details how community-led interventions that were instrumental in improving access to thousands of people to #PreExposureProphylaxis #PrEP and #PostExposureProphylaxis #PEP, are threatened and disrupted due to recent Government decisions. These recent government decisions also impact access to free HIV testing for all or condoms and other HIV prevention services. Listen to this podcast on Ap...
[podcast] Dr Nittaya Phanuphak demands urgent resolution of challenges confronting Thai AIDS response
February 05, 2023 11:41This podcast features Dr Nittaya Phanuphak, Executive Director of IHRI (Institute of HIV Research and Innovation) who got twice elected to the Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS) from Asia Pacific region, and currently serves on the GC IAS too. She explains in details how community-led interventions that were instrumental in improving access to thousands of people to #PreExposureProphylaxis #PrEP and #PostExposureProphylaxis #PEP, are threatened and disrupted due to rece...
[podcast] Will Thailand government reverse the decision that disrupted access to HIV prevention services like PrEP?
February 02, 2023 08:04This podcast features Midnight Poonkasetwattana, Executive Director of APCOM who shares insights on the how recent decisions made by Thailand government has disrupted community-led HIV prevention services such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, and other podc...
[podcast] #HeroLiesInYou | Muffy Lutzin's insights on her life journey to explore the world (and inwards)
December 20, 2022 05:26This podcast features Massachusetts General Hospital former staff Muffy Lutzin, 77, who has travelled to ~80 countries worldwide - exploring the world as well as exploring her own inner world, challenging her fears and inhibitions, discovering new lights and energies, and connecting with people and to her own self - #hearttoheart - worldwide. She shares her insights of her own #LifeJourney with CNS leader Shobha Shukla on why the only way to live fully is to be #BeYou! 🔶 The Hero Lies In...
[podcast] Vaccine hesitancy, confidence, and pandemic preparedness: Dr Gangakhedkar's insights
December 10, 2022 02:10This podcast features noted scientist Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar who shares insights on vaccine hesitancy, vaccine confidence, and range of issues around pandemic preparedness. Among the most distinguished scientists and epidemiologists, Padamshree Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar is in conversation with CNS founder head Shobha Shukla. Dr Gangakhedkar has earlier been the head of epidemiology at Indian Council of Medical Research and among distinguished #HIVScience leaders of ICMR-National AIDS Resear...
[podcast] Progress on gender equality must take into account diverse realities of people-in-need
November 16, 2022 12:08This podcast features Tomoko Fukuda, IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation)'s Regional Director for East and South-East Asia and Oceania Region (IPPF ESEAOR) who is in conversation with CNS founder and feminist leader Shobha Shukla at the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning in Pattaya, Thailand. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, Cas...
[podcast] Remarkable progress on sexual and reproductive health in Malaysia
November 10, 2022 00:56This podcast features DATO’ Dr K Balanathan A/L Kathirgamanthan, President of Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Malaysia, and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hospital Seberang Jaya, Malaysia. He is speaking with CNS in lead up to 2022 International Conference on Family Planning. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, P...
[podcast] Progress on sexual and reproductive health in Thailand, Prof Unnop Jaisamrarn shares insights
November 10, 2022 00:53This podcast features Dr Unnop Jaisamrarn, Secretary General of The Royal Thai College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. He is also the Chief of the Family Planning and Reproductive Health Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and Associate Dean for International Affairs of Faculty of Medicine, and Vice-President of the Thai Menopause Society; President of the Thai Osteoporosis Foundation; Secretary of Foru...
[podcast] Prof Aziz-un-Nisa Abbasi shares insights on improving family planning and SRHR in Pakistan
November 10, 2022 00:44This podcast features Professor (Dr) Aziz-un-Nissa Abbasi, National President of Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Pakistan (SOGP) and Abbottabad Chapter President of Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is also the Dean, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology department of Ayub Medical College of Abbottabad. She is in conversation with CNS founder Executive Director and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla in the lead up to 2022 International Conference on Family Pla...
[podcast] Commendable progress on sexual and reproductive health in Taiwan
November 10, 2022 00:30This podcast features Prof Yi Yung Chen, Director, Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Senior Attending Physician, Division of High Risk Pregnancy, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mackay Memorial Hospital. He is in conversation with CNS in lead up to 2022 International Conference on Family Planning. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, ...