aidsmapCHAT

Live chat with guests from around the world about recent news and updates for people living with HIV.

aidsmapCHAT: Pride special – series 5, episode 6

20 June 2022

With ACT UP NY activist Peter Staley, director of The Love Tank, Marc Thompson and cliniQ founder Michelle Ross.

aidsmapCHAT: series 5, episode 5

6 June 2022

With guests Jacquelyne Alesi from the Prevention Access Campaign, Andy Seale from the World Health Organization and Dr Michael Brady from NHS England. 

aidsmapCHAT: series 5, episode 4

23 May 2022

With President of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Dr Claire Dewsnap; Ukrainian activist Anton Basenko from the European AIDS Treatment Group; Kenyan journalist and aidsmap Emerging Voices writer Edith Magak; and senior advisor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS, Mark Lewis.

aidsmapCHAT: NAM's 35th anniversary special – series 5, episode 3

9 May 2022

With NAM editor Gus Cairns, founder of the Prevention Access Campaign (U=U), Bruce Richman and activist and co-chair of the Sophia Forum, Mercy Shibemba.

aidsmapCHAT: series 5, episode 2

25 April 2022

With Public Health Regional Director for London, Professor Kevin Fenton; sex worker and activist Kayden Gray; and Zimbabwean HIV campaigner Martha Tholanah.

aidsmapCHAT: series 5, episode 1

11 April 2022

With Joyce Ouma from Y+ Global, infectious disease physician Dr Tetiana Kyrychenko, and author and campaigner Juno Roche.

aidsmapCHAT: Winnie Byanyima special

13 September 2021

With the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima.

aidsmapCHAT: series 4, episode 7

2 August 2021

With the Director of CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Dr Demetre Daskalakis; HIV doctor and researcher, Dr Shema Tariq; and trans activist Rebecca de Havilland.

aidsmapCHAT: series 4, episode 6

19 July 2021

With Gina Brown from the Southern AIDS Coalition, activist Arda Karapinar and HIV doctor Tristan Barber.

aidsmapCHAT: series 4, episode 5

5 July 2021

With activist and writer, Mark S. King; consultant HIV physician and researcher, Professor Jane Anderson; and programme manager at the Global Network of People Living with HIV, Florence Riako Anam.

aidsmapCHAT: Pride 2021 special – series 4, episode 4

28 June 2021

With LGBT rights campaigner, Lisa Power; trans writer and campaigner, Juno Roche; National Advisor for LGBT Health at NHS England, Dr Michael Brady; and human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell.

aidsmapCHAT: series 4, episode 3

21 June 2021

With epidemiologist at Public Health England, Meaghan Kall; adviser at UNAIDS, Vinay Saldanha; and CEO of The Food Chain, Siobhan Lanigan.

aidsmapCHAT: series 4, episode 2

7 June 2021

With consultant physician in sexual health and HIV at Barts Health NHS Trust, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan; human rights activist from Prevention Access Campaign, Deondre B. Moore; and co-founder of Access to Medicines Ireland, Robbie Lawlor.

aidsmapCHAT: series 4, episode 1

24 May 2021

With actor and writer from comedy series ‘Merce’, and TheBody, Charles Sanchez; HIV activist from Positive Young Women Voices, Lucy Wanjiku Njenga; and Chair of the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH), Dr John McSorley.

aidsmapCHAT: series 3, episode 6

11 February 2021

With HIV doctor and health activist, Dr Oni Blackstock; HIV and LGBT activist, Josh Robbins; and HIV doctor and Chair of the British HIV Association, Dr Laura Waters.

aidsmapCHAT: series 3, episode 5

28 January 2021

With writer at TheBody, Juan Michael Porter II; researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and EATG member, Maryan Said; and former BHIVA Chair and President Elect of the Medical Women's Federation, Professor Chloe Orkin.

aidsmapCHAT: series 3, episode 4

14 January 2021

With Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre; Edwin Sesange, LGBT rights campaigner; and Todd Cooper, a medical student who's working on the COVID frontline.

aidsmapCHAT: series 3, episode 3

3 December 2020

With Dr Tristan Barber from the Royal Free Hospital, doctor and radio host Sindi van Zyl and 'London patient' Adam Castillejo, who has been cured of HIV.

aidsmapCHAT: series 3, episode 2

19 November 2020

With Karl Schmid, HIV-positive producer and reporter for ABC in Los Angeles; Denis Onyango from the Africa Advocacy Foundation; and Dr Mina Hosseinipour, infectious diseases doctor who talks about the recent trial results for injectable PrEP in women.

aidsmapCHAT: series 3, episode 1

5 November 2020

With Dr Sanjay Bhagani, Consultant Physician/Associate Professor of HIV and President-elect of the European AIDS Clinical Society; Nathaniel Hall, HIV-positive actor and activist; and Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, internationally recognised expert on HIV, race, class and gender.

aidsmapCHAT: series 2, episode 3

17 September 2020

With Dr Peter Ghys from UNAIDS; writer and long-term HIV survivor, Hank Trout; and writer and activist, Bakita Kasadha.

aidsmapCHAT: series 2, episode 2

3 September 2020

With international speaker and HIV activist from the Prevention Access Campaign, Davina Conner; sex worker, activist and PrEP advocate, Jason Domino; and sexual health and HIV doctor, Vanessa Apea.

aidsmapCHAT: series 2, episode 1

20 August 2020

With Sean Strub, writer and activist and founder of POZ magazine; and Professor Jürgen Rockstroh, HIV clinician and President of the European AIDS Clinical Society.

aidsmapCHAT: Pride 2020 special

25 June 2020

With Dr Demetre Daskalakis of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Cecilia Chung, trans HIV activist, based in San Francisco, featured in the drama series When We Rise; and Jason Jones, who successfully challenged homophobic legislation in Trinidad and Tobago.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 7

21 May 2020

With Shannon Hader, Deputy Executive Director of Programme at UNAIDS; Winifred lkilai, who works with the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC); and Julia Marcus, infectious disease epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 6

14 May 2020

With Professor Kevin Fenton, Public Health Regional Director for London; MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who's openly living with HIV; and Kenyan activist Doreen Moraa Moracha.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 5

7 May 2020

With Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV at the Royal London Hospital; Bruce Richman, Founding Executive Director of the Prevention Access Campaign and U=U campaign; and Ian Green, Chief Executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 4

30 April 2020

With Dr Oni Blackstock, from the NYC Health Department; young activists Becky Kroger and Eli Fitzgerald in the UK; and Midnight Poonkasetwattana from the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) in Bangkok.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 3

23 April 2020

With Anton Pozniak, President of the International AIDS Society; Georgina Caswell, Head of Programmes at the Global Network of People Living with HIV; and Bisi Alimi, Executive Director of the Bisi Alimi Foundation, which advocates for the rights of LGBT people in Nigeria.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 2

16 April 2020

With Dazon Dixon Diallo, Founder and President of SisterLove Inc; Idris Mwendwa Wambua from HAPA Kenya; and Dr Tristan Barber, an HIV doctor who has been redeployed to work on COVID-19 wards.

aidsmapCHAT: series 1, episode 1

9 April 2020

With Dr Meg Doherty, Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis, STI Programmes at the World Health Organization; writer and activist Mark S King; and Leasuwanna Griffith, HIV activist and nurse associate apprentice.