Mark Ward
Haemophiliac, Activist & HIV Positive
When I walked into a club, I wasn’t Mark the haemophiliac, I wasn’t Mark the AIDS victim, I was the Mark party animal.
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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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Barbara von Baresewisch
Specialist HIV Nurse
Nurses are important to patients, but the reverse is also true - we remember patients and are shaped by them
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Flick Thorley
HIV Specialist Nurse, Advocate & Lesbian
Many of my colleagues, male and female, were gay themselves, as I am, and this helped drive through change quickly
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Jane Bruton
Nursing Pioneer, Clinical Research Manager
When there is no cure, all you can do is care
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Prof Jane Anderson
Female Consultant Physician
Other questions began to emerge. What if a woman were pregnant? Could she safely have children?
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Fred Mann
Long Term Survivor
Trying to fight a pandemic in a gay relationship, when it’s actually illegal to be with the person you’re trying to save, is not something I would wish on anybody.
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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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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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