Crossing The Last Mile
UNAIDS East and Southern AfricaWelcome to Crossing The Last Mile, a podcast by UNAIDS East and Southern Africa, hosted by Anne Githuku Shongwe.Join us for this and other episodes as we tell the remarkable story of resilience and undying hope for the journey to end AIDs as a public health threat by 2030.This podcast is supported by the partnership 2gether4SRHR and was made at SemaBOX. Walk with us as we go Crossing The Last Mile... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 10 months ago |
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Episode 3 - The @AfricaOnNetflix hit series The Polygamist has captivated audiences around the world, sparking conversations about love, power, relationships and the choices people make. In this episode of Crossing the Last Mile, we sit down with a... more
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Executive producers: Anne Githuku-Shongwe, Bathsheba Okwenje for UNAIDS
Producers: Koketso Madubye, Aude Labbe-Videau
Creative Lead; Dan Aceda, Bathsheba Okwenje
Writers: Dan Aceda, Bathsheba Okwenje
Engineering: Dan Aceda, House of Dillie
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In East and Southern Africa, HIV has a face, and it is disproportionately young and female.
Of the 21.1 million people living with HIV in the region, adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 acquire HIV at three times the rate of their male pee... more
Welcome to Crossing the Last Mile
The data tells us an uncomfortable truth: HIV follows inequality.
Across the world, people pushed to the margins of society - sex workers, gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and pe... more
In this opening episode, Anne Githuku-Shongwe, Regional Director for UNAIDS in East and Southern Africa, breaks down the current state of the HIV response in Africa at a time when global funding cuts are reshaping the landscape.
We hear directly fro... more
Welcome to Crossing The Last Mile,a podcast by UNAIDS East and Southern Africa, hosted by Anne Githuku Shongwe.
Join us for this and other episodes as we tell the remarkable story of resilience and undying hope for the journey to end AIDs as a publi... more
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Apple Podcasts | #109 |  South Africa/Business/Non-Profit |
Apple Podcasts | #216 | Norway/Business |
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This show centers on ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, with a strong focus on HIV prevention, treatment access, stigma reduction, and SRHR in Southern Africa. Episodes frequently fuse personal narratives—activists, patients, and advocates—with broader policy and funding contexts, highlighting community-led approaches, youth-led activism, and the role of storytelling in health education. A notable pattern is pairing literary or lived-experience perspectives with practical health messaging, aiming to empower listeners, influence behavior, and spotlight resilient communities across the region.
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2. Nomonde Ngema
3. Richard Lusimbo
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