Talking Right: How Tablighi Jamaat was stigmatised during the pandemic
In 2020 March, when the sudden lockdown was imposed, one thing that was on every TV channel was the Tablighi Jamaat. No one knew about Tabli...
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Gasping For Breath
Gasping For Breath is a deep-dive reported narrative podcast series on tuberculosis in India. It is India's first podcast on tuberculosis hosted by senior health journalist Menka Rao.
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Talking Right: Migrant crisis and how one IAS officer tackled it with effective interstate communications
The Sirens of ambulances and mortuary vans, relatives of patients running around with Oxygen cylinders, and empty roads because of lockdowns...
Talking Right: Challenges in Communicating in Rural India
In this episode of Talking Right, Suno India's editor-in-chief DVL Padma reported over the course of the pandemic, we bring to you a convers...
Talking Right: Why is it important to place community first when communicating?
In this episode, Suno India editor-in-chief DVL Padma Priya spoke with Dr Mittali Sethi, an IAS officer from the 2017 batch. When the lockdo...
Talking Right: How did India fare in communicating during a pandemic?
his episode sets the context about why it is important to communicate well during a pandemic like COVID-19 and features discussions between...
Life After Covid - How I started supporting myself
This is the last reported episode in season 2 of Gasping for Breath. In this episode, Suno India’s Menaka Rao has an extended chat with Giri...
Life after Covid - How long covid left my worklife in shambles
In this episode of the Gasping for Breath. In this episode, we discuss how long covid affects your work life. Students suffering from long c...
Life after COVID - Is Long Covid a Disability?
In this episode of Gasping for Breath season 2, we raise a question- Is Long Covid a disability? In 2021, the Americans with Disabilities Ac...
Life after COVID - How long covid changes your body
This episode of Gasping for Breath is an attempt to understand Long Covid from the scientific community. We try to understand what is known...
Life after COVID - My doctors did not believe me
In this episode, the survivors of Long Covid discuss their experiences with doctors. Most of them have been gaslighted by the medical frater...
Life after COVID - My body does not feel the same
The second season of Gasping for Breath is about the people who live with Long Covid. About 22 months after the pandemic began, in October 2...
Treating TB is hard, it is worse if you are a woman
TB is also a highly stigmatised disease making it very difficult for patients enduring treatment. In this episode, we look at how the stigma...
How the private sector can help battle TB?
The private sector treats about 70% of TB patients. In this episode, we go to Patna which is successfully running a programme in engaging th...
Why TB patients aren't getting the drugs they need
India has the highest number of patients suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world. However, the access to newer TB drugs whic...
The connection between drug use, HIV and TB
In this episode, we travel to Manipur and understand the risks of TB infection with the drug user community. The drug user community has, by...
Kerala model of TB control
The Joint Monitoring Mission recently visited Kerala and were all praises for its work in TB control with aims to eliminate the disease. In...
How one man and a simple box are engaging the community to fight against TB
All it takes is a big box which cannot go unnoticed to stir a conversation about what's in/on it. In Jharkhand, that's what clicked in Hazar...
Tuberculosis and human rights
In this episode, we speak to human rights activist, Allan Maleche from Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN) which...
Bolo Didi - By the community & for the community of TB survivors
In this special episode, Suno India editor, Padma Priya, brings an interview with Nandita Venkatesan, one of the founders of Bolo Didi. Bolo...
Why TB remains difficult to diagnose
This episode will describe the various problems faced by both patients and doctors in diagnosing TB. TB is tough to diagnose, and the diffic...