Michael Gould
HIV Positive Male Nurse
Perhaps I knew fifty people who died by the end of the eighties. I was in my mid- thirties going through what octogenarian grandparents experience when all their friends die and they’re the last.
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Ash Kotak
Film Maker, Long Term Survivor & Founder AIDS Memory
We have to take collective responsibility for the job that is not finished. The job started in 1982. The job is to end AIDS, and the stigma surrounding it.
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Kevin Kelland
Long Term Survivor & Activist
He’d been moved to a respite home which was really for elderly people. It was full of prejudice and bigotry. Some nurses wouldn’t touch him. He went through hell before he died.
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Andrew Keates
Theatre Director, Advocate & HIV Positive
The biggest obstacle for people with HIV isn't the virus. It's what everyone around them is saying and thinking
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Dr Rupert Whitaker
THT Founder, Pioneer & HIV Activist
A major issue…is that neither social nor mental issues are addressed adequately by clinics
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Richard Leaf
Advocate & Lighthouse Volunteer
The thing we can all do is the thing right in front of us, to hold out our hand to the next person who needs help
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Alan Burgess
Long Term Survivor, & Haemophiliac
I tried not to let haemophilia get in the way of anything I wanted to do
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Winnie Sseruma
Long Term Survivor & Activist
I saw it as my role to support others living with HIV, especially those in the black African community
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Jonathan Blake
Long Term Survivor & Activist
The more we can see people with HIV as normal, leading positive lives, the more we remove stigma
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George Hodson
Long Term Survivor & Warrior Queen
The day you get your diagnosis is like a personal earthquake
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