Gill Brigg
Friend & Carer
I took one look at Vaughn and part of me broke. His clothes were on inside out. He had bits of wool and string tied in circles around him, and a tape measure. Things to ‘keep him safe’. His mind was disturbed.
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Krishen Samuel
HIV Adocate & HIV Positive
All those who came before me, that is part of my story
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Arnold Gordon
Activist & Founder of Blackliners
There was a huge appetite among young, gay, black men for what we could do to help them
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Lord Norman Fowler
Politician, Leader of 'Don't Die of Ignorance Campaign'
There were some who believed this was not a public health issue but one of public morality
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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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David Eason
Long Term Survivor
One of the greatest tragedies of HIV is that instead of treating it as a catastrophic medical pandemic, the rest of the world treated it as a moral issue
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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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Barbara Hathaway & Denise
Mother of HIV Positive Daughter
In London by that time, the perception was that it affected only gay men, nothing to do with women.
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