Episode 60 - Charlotte Deogan - Europe's SDG Reality Check

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore Europe's progress toward the 2030 SDGs with Charlotte Deogan, expert in communicable diseases at ECDC.

This episode unpacks SDG Target 3.3, which aims to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, and combat viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections by 2030.

As ECDC releases its first comprehensive monitoring report on the SDGs, we discuss the EU/EEA's current status and whether we are on track.

ECDC’s reports and other work on the SDGs can be found here. For more information about ECDC in general, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ecdc.europa.eu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠social media.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.0	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.0	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.
0:14.0	Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. I'm your host, Lee,
0:21.9	recording from my headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. On today's episode, we're discussing the 2030
0:26.6	Sustainable Development Goals with ECDC expert in communicable diseases, Charlotte Dugan. The 2030 Sustainable
0:33.9	Development Goals represent a universal call to address a wide range of interconnected
0:38.7	global challenges. Goal 3 specifically focuses on health and well-being. ECDC works to support
0:45.1	countries to reach target 3.3, which aims to end the epidemics of HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis,
0:51.4	viral hepatitis, and other communicable diseases.
1:13.3	So we're sitting here today with Charlotte Dugan, expert in communicable diseases here at ECDC. Charlotte, thanks for joining us.
1:15.4	Thanks for having me.
1:17.3	Before we begin, could you tell us a little bit about your role here at ECDC?
1:21.5	I work in the group we call it SDG Diseases Group, which work with HIV, tuberculosis, viral
1:29.7	hepatitis and STIs. And I work mainly on prevention and monitoring. So today we're going to be
1:36.1	talking about the newly released monitoring report on the Sustainable Development Goals.
1:40.5	Could you give us a brief overview of what the SDGs are and specifically what is SDG 3.3?
1:47.5	So the agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals is a joint plan for the world's countries to work towards a better future.
1:57.9	So the foundation are 17 sustainable development goals, of which one is number
2:03.0	three on good health or wellbeing. And then there are several other ones, one on ending poverty,
2:09.2	one on achieving zero hunger, etc. And what's essential about these goals is that they
2:15.3	recognize that ending poverty goes hand in hand with,
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