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This Podcast  features both co-chairs of first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Katherine Urbaez  and Tracie Muraya . Katherine Urbaez is a former diplomat from the Dominican Republic, who has been instrumental throughout her career in numerous negotiations and in developing public policies within various multilateral processes, with a sp...

First  podcast  of 2025 features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood , District Programme Officer, National Health Mission and District TB Officer (National TB Elimination Programme) Kangra Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is in conversation with CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla on the ongoing #100Days focussed campaign to #ReachTheUnreached people with best of T...

This podcast  features  Nurgul Dzhanaeva , President of the Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has worked on SDG-related issues at the local, national, regional and global levels. From 2016-2019, she was instrumental in initiating the campaign “From Global to Local” which sought to integrate SDG Goal 5 – to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls – into Kyrgyzstan’s...

This podcast features Nalini Singh , a noted Fiji's human rights activist and Executive Director of Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM). She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla , a feminist development justice activist and CNS Founder Executive Director around the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum on the theme of: Feminist world building - creative energies, collective journeys in Chiang Mai, Thai...

This special Podcast features Dr Po-Lin Chan , Regional Advisor (HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections - STIs) at World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office, and Dr Ishwar Gilada , who is a part of Organising Committee of 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) and Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS). They were in conversation with CNS Fou...

This special Podcast   features leaders from 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum #APFF4 (Chiang Mai, Thailand: 12-14 September 2024). The theme of APFF4 is " Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys ." Panelists include: Abia Akram,  a disability rights activist and the founder and CEO of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; Eni Lestari , a migra...

This podcast features Sumit Mitra , President (International Sales), Molbio Diagnostics. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , Spotify , YouTube Podcasts , TuneIn , Podtail , BluBrry , Himalaya , ListenNotes , American Podcasts , CastBox FM , Ivy FM , Player FM , iV...

This podcast features Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva , former head of Indian government's TB and HIV programmes (DDG), former South-East Asia Regional Director of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and currently serving as President-CMO of Molbio Diagnostics. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to h...

This podcast  features  Dr Kamal Kishore Chopra  who is a senior TB expert and former Director of New Delhi TB Centre, State Training and Demonstration Centre, and also part of the leadership of TB Association of India. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts , Ama...

This podcast  features Dr Ishwar Gilada who had established India's first AIDS clinic in 1986 when first HIV case had got diagnosed in the country.  Dr Gilada is the longest serving HIV medical expert in India, President-Emeritus of AIDS Society of India, part of Governing Council of IAS (International AIDS Society) and 25th International AIDS Conference organising committee. He is in co...

  This podcast  features UNAIDS India Country Director David Bridger  who shares what #PutPeopleFirst means to him in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) to be held in Munich, Germany. He is in conversation with Shobha Shukla , CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director and Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA). Listen to this podcast on...

This podcast  features Dr Sangeeta Sharma , Professor and Head, Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India. She is also the President of Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs. Dr Sangeeta Sharma is in conversation with CNS founder and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla (who Chairs Global AMR Media Alliance - GAMA). List...

This podcast  features Bhakti Chavan  who is a part of World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Survivors. She is in conversation with CNS founder and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla. Shobha is the Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA). Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , Spotify , YouTube Podcasts ,  TuneIn , Podtail...

This podcast  features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood , District Programme Officer, National Health Mission, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. He shares what #PutPeopleFirst means to him in the lead up to the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024). Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , Google Podcasts , Spotify , TuneIn , Podtail , BluBrry , Himalaya , ListenNotes , American...

This podcast features insights from a range of experts who spoke in End Malaria Dialogues held around the 77th World Health Assembly of World Health Organization (WHO). Experts include: Dr Michael Adekunle Charles , CEO RBM Partnership to End Malaria; Dr Marijke Wijnroks , Head of Strategic Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund; Sriram Natarajan , co-founder and CEO Molbio Diagnostics; P...

In lead up to the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) in Munich, Germany, listen to this  podcast featuring Dr Meg Doherty , World Health Organization (WHO) Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes. She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla , CNS founder, Managing Editor and Executive Director. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts , Amazo...

This 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...

Listen 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...

This 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. Rea...

TB 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...

Listen 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 ap...

This 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...

This 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...

In 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 , S...

This 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 sessi...