Best of times and worst of times
The 1980s was a peak time for ‘gay’ and ‘community’. They were also the time that we got to understand the HIV epidemic
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March 2018
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March 2018
It came out of nowhere
No one knew what it was, what caused it, or how to deal with it. But it was a guaranteed killer. The first recorded case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in Australia was in Sydney in October 1982.
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October 2015
A Long Road Forward
In those days, learning that you had contracted the ‘AIDS virus’ meant getting a death sentence.
