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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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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Robert Ely
Activist & HIV Positive
I don’t have any holidays, I don’t have a car, I don’t do anything out of the ordinary these days, apart from survive, and that is worrying
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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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Adrienne Seed
Artist HIV Positive Long Term Survivor
Roughly half the people infected with HIV throughout the world are women!
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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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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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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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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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Jo Manchester
Long Term Survivor & Activist
My GP said, "There’s only one way to tell you this. You’ve got AIDS. You’ve probably got 5 years to live. If you’re in an accident, be careful with your blood. Don’t get pregnant."
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