John Meuret
Long Term Survivor & Ex Drag Queen
We did raise a lot of money, you know. And it was all out of people’s pockets
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Frankie O’Reilly
Long Term Survivor & Ex Drag Queen
We came to London to give each other freedom, to enjoy ourselves. We’d had that. And now we both had our diagnoses.
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Prof Robert Miller
Specialist HIV Doctor
Patients didn’t blindly follow what either I said, or the rest of the team said. And I think we were decades ahead of the rest of the health service in that regard.
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Leigh Neal
Long Term Survivor & Ex Drug Addict
In my first group I said, ‘I’m Leigh. I’m an addict and I’m HIV positive, so you can all leave the room now.’ Instead, they hugged me.
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Barbara Hedge
Psychologist & HIV Advocate
Every so often somebody would arrive in an ambulance from another part of the country with people dressed in space suits to bring them in. Stigma was prevalent beyond the four walls of the ward.
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Hatta Hodson
Mother of HIV Positive Son
My private crusade has been to find other parents like me, because while the secrecy goes on, so does the stigma.
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Ruth Phypers
Buddy & Advocate
The report appeared in the News of the World: Sex and Drugs on AIDS Training Weekend. Suddenly we were all under the spotlight and it wasn’t fair. Volunteers had put in so much.
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Mel Rattue
Mother & Long Term Survivor
We were both tested. There was no concern on my part. I was doing it to encourage him. I knew my sexual history, so I knew that I was going to be ok.
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Emma Cole
Educationalist & Long Term Survivor
It’s not about ‘good’ people with HIV, and ‘bad’ people. An illness doesn’t know who you are when it infects you.
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Helen Nicholson
Advocate & Friend to HIV Positive Men
But it was splashed across the media: 'Should we allow our future queen to shake hands with an AIDS victim?' All this bile. Bile about Shane.
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