Rio Calling: Global Funding
Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Matthew Hodson, Gus Cairns, Diego Agurto Beroiza, Silvia Petretti. Plus on-site interviews with Simon Collins, Kene Esom, Joan Stephen, Derrick Powell, Vincent LeClerc, Eliane Becks Nininahazwe, Luca Stevenson and Sophie Strachan.
The cuts are real, and they're killing people. On the opening day of AIDS 2026, Dan Hall and dan glass ask conference delegates what happens when the money that built forty years of progress simply stops arriving.
Dr Tristan Barber of BHIVA tops and tails the episode with the clinical reality of clinics shutting their doors.
Archive testimony comes from Matthew Hodson, writer, activist and former executive director of NAM aidsmap, on why the death toll is rising again; Gus Cairns, HIV journalist and educator diagnosed in 1985, on the collapse of US assistance to Africa; Diego Agurto Beroiza, Chilean theatre maker and activist, on PrEP funding disappearing in Argentina; and Silvia Petretti, chief executive of Positively UK, on grief for those already lost and anger at those still to come.
Links
- BHIVA
- HIV i-Base
- AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference
- UNAIDS, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response (2025 World AIDS Day report)
- UNAIDS, 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform
Extra Special Thanks Anonymous, Soleta Rogan
Thanks Adam Price, Alix Fox, Apostolos James Vogiatzis, Bryn Gay, Careen Hertzog, Emma20Cole, Garry Brough, Moray Laing, Peter Staley, Philippe Cahill, Ross Fletcher, Sarah Schulman, Simon Collins, Siobhán Allison, Tom McKitterick
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