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Sexual health and rights education is still a big taboo around the world, with dramatic consequences for too many young people. In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Karin Stierlin about her success with the App Love Land and its programs.
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In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Violet Chifunda about why young women in Zambia drop out of school and why they don't believe in themselves and therefore make wrong decisions about their sexuality.
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Around 38 million people worldwide are living with HIV, which can cause AIDS. Since the start of the pandemic in 1981, 36.3 million have died as a result of AIDS. Division, disparity and disregard for human rights are among the failures that allowed HIV to become and remain a global health crisis.
This World AIDS Day, UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world. Now, COVID-19 is exacerbating inequities and disruptions to services, making the lives of many people living with HIV more challenging. Without bold action against inequalities, the world risks missing the targets to end AIDS by 2030.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Carolyn Gomes about the theme of today’s World Aids Day “END INEQUALITIES. END AIDS. END PANDEMICS.” We talk about what inequalities are and how they drive the HIV pandemic and about essential role that communities have played and continue to play in the AIDS response at the international, national and local levels.
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Telehealth is the delivery of health care services, where patients and providers are separated by distance. Telehealth platforms provide both opportunities and barriers for persons with disabilities. If designed with accessibility standards in mind, telehealth can have an incredibly positive impact on the lives of persons with disabilities by improving access to quality and cost-effective health services for all regardless of where they live. However, if the barriers to accessing these platforms are not removed, telehealth can further the digital divide and exclusion of persons with disabilities.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Andrea Pregel about how the area of digital health, or ‘telehealth’ has been evolving in recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic and what this has meant for persons with disabilities. We talk about the barriers and benefits for persons with disabilities to access telehealth and the steps that need to be taken to make digital health accessible and barrier free for all users.
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Persons with disabilities and persons with psychosocial disabilities more specifically, are already a vulnerable group before any disaster or crisis happens. During a humanitarian crisis, they are more likely to experience direct physical impact, but also increased distress, violence, exploitation and discrimination. Persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected by humanitarian situations, but often overlooked in emergency response programmes and services across sectors. Disability inclusive humanitarian action is needed to ensure that the barriers faced by persons with disabilities are identified and removed, and that their participation and inclusion is ensured.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Ben Adams about his passion for mental health and about what we mean by disability inclusive humanitarian action. We talk about the risks that persons with disabilities face in humanitarian emergencies and the impact of crises like COVID-19 on persons with disabilities, including on mental health.
Ben Adams is a Senior Mental Health Advisor with CBM Global Disability Inclusion. He has experience as a mental health clinician in Ireland, and globally as a mental health advisor and researcher. Ben currently leads on CBM Global MHPSS (The Mental Health & Psychosocial Support Network) work and is the Senior Advisor of their Community Mental Health Team where he focusses on both Asia and Africa regions. He has a passion for human rights, equity, and inclusion. -
Women and girls with disabilities have the same sexual and reproductive health and rights needs as other people. Yet they often face barriers to accessing information and services. In addition, there are a number of pervasive stereotypes that exist in most cultures in the world about the sexuality of women with disabilities. They are predominantly negative and either serve to deny their sexuality or create fear about it. Their voices are often shut out and they are not empowered to speak out about their needs because of stigma and discrimination. Persons with disability are commonly assumed to be unable to learn about sexuality, have relationships, to be a sexual partner or an effective parent. During COVID-19 lockdowns, women with disabilities faced real hardship as we estimate that they are two to four times more likely to experience physical and sexual violence than women without a disability.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Gertrude Fefoame from Ghana about her passion and work advocating for the rights of women and girls with disabilities. We talk about sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls with disabilities, as well as violence, what kind of barriers they are facing when accessing health care services and what kind of stereotypes they are facing around sexuality.
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Persons with disabilities have the same general healthcare needs as everyone else. They have the right to equal access to quality healthcare services; however, this is not the case in most countries. In many cases, health services may exist but be of very poor quality. Persons with disabilities may face particular barriers in accessing needed healthcare including stigma and discrimination by healthcare staff. Access to information is another key a barrier in the healthcare system, particularly for blind and partially sighted persons.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to José Viera about the stigma and social taboos against persons with disabilities, and their impact on healthcare -
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to the Head of Advocacy at CBM Switzerland, Mirjam Gasser, and Chris Heer, self-advocate on the rights of persons with disabilities and head of Equality and Social Policy from the organization of persons with disabilities AGILE.CH. They talk about what it means to live with a disability in Switzerland and about the historical background to the Swiss disability movement. We talk about the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), what a human rights-based approach to disability means, and the implementation of the CRPD in and by Switzerland. Lastly, we discuss why equal participation is so essential for the inclusion of persons with disabilities and how this can and should look like both nationally and within Swiss international cooperation.
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In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Hannah Kuper about the current gaps in data and research on disability, and the evidence of the link between health and disability. We talk about COVID-19 mortality and disability and about the link between poverty, disability and adverse health outcomes. We also talk about why Hannah got involved in this area of work and how the International Centre for Evidence in Disability came about.
Hannah Kuper is the Director of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability, a research group at LSHTM that works to expand the research and teaching activities of LSHTM in the field of global disability. She is also the co-research director of the FCDO-funded PENDA grant, which will undertake 10 impact evaluation of disability inclusive development programmes in resource poor settings.
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Homelessness is a big challenge in low-and middle-income countries and mental health conditions are highly prevalent in homeless populations. A significant number of homeless people have some sort of mental illness including sever mental health disorders. There is a considerable treatment and support gap for this marginalised population. The Banyan organisation with its treatment and care services are filling the gap in India for the most vulnerable population.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks with Dr. Vandana Gopikumar about her passion and love to support the mentally ill homeless women and men and how she and her team are able to treat and heal patients so that they can go back and life a normal life again together with their families or in their community.
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In this episode, Carine Weiss speaks with Achille Bapolisi, one of three psychiatrists in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Achille talks about the need to provide more psycho-social services and more support for his hometown and country, which is suffering from traumatic experiences of war. He talks about the need to create safe spaces to talk about feelings and traumatic experiences - not only for health workers, but for men and women of all ages.
The mental health workforce gap in low- and middle-income countries is very worrying. In low-income countries, the rate of mental health workers can be as low as 2 per 100 000 population, compared with more than 70 in high-income countries. This is in stark contrast with needs, given that 1 in every 10 person is estimated to need mental health care at any one time.
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Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. It is a mental health disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel and behave clearly. The exact cause of schizophrenia isn't known, but a combination of genetics, environment and altered brain chemistry and structure may play a role. Schizophrenia is characterised by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality, disorganised speech or behaviour and decreased participation in daily activities. Schizophrenia is affecting 20 million people worldwide according to WHO (2020).
In this episode, Carine talks with Charlene Sunkel, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and proved to everyone to be able to have a meaningful life despite being told that she has no rights, no future and no recovery ahead. Today she is the founder of the Global Mental Health Peer Network and has won several awards for her work.
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Malaria is a disease of poverty and injustice. It is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. Its impact is especially ferocious on the poorest: those least able to afford preventive measures and medical treatment. And yet, malaria is entirely preventable through an integrated package of interventions, such as properly maintained insecticide-treated nets, indoor residual spraying and information campaigns. If diagnosed and treated promptly and correctly, malaria is curable.
Defeating malaria is critical to ending poverty and improving maternal and child health. Strengthening national health services and community led initiatives are crucial in ending Malaria.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Valentina Buj about her dedication to fight Malaria and to contribute to the end of Malaria. We also talk about gender inequality, access to health systems and about the importance of health system strengthening to end malaria.
Valentina Buj is the global malaria and health partnership advisor at UNICEF. Since 2002, she has worked to assist countries to continue scaling up integrated malaria interventions and works to foster greater harmonization among global malaria initiatives. Mrs. Buj spends much of her time working in malaria-endemic countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon, and Mozambique.
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Mosquitoes infect millions of people with malaria - a disease that kills a child every two minutes. Most of these deaths occur in the poorest countries with the weakest health systems. Over the past 20 years, much has been invested in malaria prevention and treatment, resulting in the prevention of over 7.6 million malaria deaths. The progress the world has made in the fight against malaria is one of the greatest success stories in global health. Currently, however, these successes are threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic, as the virus places an additional burden on already fragile health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. The good news is that many countries are finding ways to maintain important malaria programmes despite the pandemic, and there were fewer disruptions of prevention and treatment activities last year than feared.
In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Professor Christian Lengeler about his passion for malaria research and how the current pandemic is affecting malaria prevention and treatment.
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World Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April, is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control.
The Swiss Malaria Group advocates for a malaria-free world. As a multistakeholder network of academic research, civil society organizations, corporate and public sectors, we unite all sectors and cover the whole intervention chain from research and innovation to large-scale access to prevention and treatment and implementation along with the necessary advocacy. The Swiss Malaria Group is a unique example of partnership which reflects the Sustainable Development Goals.
In this episode, Carine talks to the executive secretary of the Swiss Malaria Group Julia Richter, about their commitment, why the World Malaria Day is important and why collaboration between different actors in the fight against malaria is crucial.
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One in three women in India is likely to have been subjected to intimate partner violence of a physical, emotional, or sexual nature. Due to the deeply rooted gender norms and cultural values in the Indian society violence continues. Children in homes where there is domestic violence are often neglected or abused themselves which which means that they often go through the phase of puberty and adolescence without emotional and cognitive support.
In this episode Carine Weiss talks to Khushboo a young independent 27-year-old woman from India. Khushboo who has lost her mother due to domestic violence fights for human rights, justice and for unbiased information when it comes to comprehensive sexuality education. We talked about the impact of her upbringing and the lack of information around puberty, love and relationships.
Khushboo has completed her education in Psychology and Human Rights. She is a "Youth Champion" of Asia Safe Abortion Partnership. She has largely worked on issues related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Comprehensive Sexuality Education. She is also a counsellor for young adults and adolescents who deal with issues related to love, sex and relationships. Currently, she is starting her own company called "WhatTheFusss!!"
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“Do we ever wonder why talking about sex, sexuality, sexual desire and pleasure brings in such feeling of shame and embarrassment? After all there is nothing unnatural about it nor are we born with this shame. But we grow up hearing, knowing and feeling that sex is something shameful.”
In this episode Carine Weiss talks to Vithika Yadav a human rights activists and head of love matters India who is passionate about talking about sex to lift the taboos and to change harmful social norms. If we don’t talk about it openly and honestly we will not be able to talk and tackle the issues around sexual harassment, sexual assaults or rape. In this episode we talk about how to lift harmful norms and to break taboos, the need for unbiased, youth-friendly sexuality education and about the impact of pornography on young people.
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