I’m old enough to remember when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980’s. While almost every new virus or disease comes with a high level of concern, the fear, paranoia and stigmas ...
In the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS swept the nation, there was no Operation Warp Speed, no news coverage, and no acknowledgement from the president about the disease at all. Unlike the coronavirus ...
In the 1980s, the Aids epidemic in the US and UK affected mainly gay men who were just beginning to emerge from decades of discrimination and criminalisation to take pride in their gay identity.
These stories and more are recounted in Commitment To Life, which also acts as a time capsule for 1980s Hollywood ... knowledge of the horrors of the AIDS epidemic. But they need to know the ...
Elizabeth Taylor was heartbroken to learn of Rock Hudson's HIV-positive status with the rest of the public as his condition worsened.
Outside In director Kathy Oliver was tired of people dying in her care. So in 1989, she took a radical step: give drug users ...
"That was an epidemic," Dr Robertson tells the ... BBC/Two Rivers Princess Diana was a very public supporter of AIDS charities and in the late 1980s. She is seen in this photograph talking to ...
Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Director Indhu Rubasingham selects a 1980s Larry Kramer play about the AIDS epidemic ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, selling blood was common ... While she was not the first Chinese doctor to expose the AIDS epidemic, it was her efforts that made the situation known to the country and ...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic touched many people throughout the 1980s, and the actress was no exception. In the final installment of the documentary Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, there's a look back ...