Trailer: Rio Calling
Rio Calling is a six-part daily spin-off of HIV: The Morning After, broadcast from inside AIDS 2026 - the biggest HIV conference on the planet. Every day for six days, we're bringing you what's actually being said on the conference floor, what it means for people living with HIV, and how it lands against decades of lived experience from the podcast archive.
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Hosting duties fall to two Dans: Dan Hall, producer and presenter of HIV: The Morning After, and Dan Glass, ACT UP activist, author, and a man with infinite energy to make the world better. Together they unpack each day's theme, with clinical steer from Dr Tristan Barber of BHIVA. Wrapped around the raw interviews from the conference itself are clips from podcast guests including Jonathan Blake, Marc Thompson, Silvia Petretti, Ellie Harrison, Susan Cole-Haley, Angelina Namiba, Ellie Harrison and Alexander Cheves.
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Six days. Six themes. One conference deciding what happens next.
- Episode 1 - Money Talks: Funding cuts, PEPFAR, and what happens when the world stops paying attention.
- Episode 2 - Still Ashamed: Stigma hasn't gone anywhere — it's just moved to your dating apps and your GP's waiting room.
- Episode 3 - Whose Epidemic?: Migration, gender, and the voices the mainstream narrative keeps leaving out.
- Episode 4 - Undetectable, Not Untouched: The science has moved on. Has life?
- Episode 5 - Left Out of the Trial: Women, research gaps, and reproductive healthcare that's still catching up.
- Episode 6 - The Empty Room: What we lost when the community spaces closed - and what it costs to be surviving alone.
Subscribe in this feed now - new episodes land daily throughout AIDS 2026.
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