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Can’t help but feel she should have had more TV work. She was a very good presenter

These commentators are so pleased to point out that women in Africa get AIDS nearly as much as men! Where do you think they got AIDS from? MEN, that's who.

How are you doing today

Is baldy dead?

I watch a lot of these programmes because, as a gay man, I feel a sense of obligation to remember these guys and what they went through. Whether they survived or died, they fought a battle they didn't ask for or deserve, and they shouldn't be forgotten.

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One of those leaflets in is on eBay

A very good look at social attitudes in the 1980s, which were frankly appalling. Victorian ideas of "deserving" and "undeserving" victims still applied, and if you didn't conform to narrow ideals, you were deemed to have earned all the pain and misfortune you got. It was a very brutal, authoritarian way of looking at the world. This applied not only to gay men, but also to women on many levels and to children. There was little attempt ever to understand "why". As Jung famously said "Thinking is hard. That's why people judge." And that was rampant in the 80s. Sadly, it's also why so many child sex scandals were brushed under the carpet. The kids were likely to be judged as "trash" or having brought it on themselves in some way, particularly if the accusations were against someone who was "respectable".

takes me back a bit

There were also buddy"s volunteers with a caring attitude with truly interest who visited them and doing things with them. There was also the shanti project and the good samatitan house and the Charly Brownly house who took them in. The good samaritan the name says it all and this is for true christians without condemnation and who are not biased and who are non judgemental. There were also activists who were seeking attention for this issue. .

Brazil still have high AIDS rates. Couldn’t pay me to date someone from there.

Claire was a bloomin legend

The portrayal of AIDS as a gay disease probably cost millions of people who weren't gay their lives. We now know that most HIV infections in the western world can be traced back to a strain of HIV that was brought to New York in c. 1969 from Haiti. It then spread through the homeless and poor heterosexual population in New York (it was subsequently found in the 1980s that 1 in 5 women in Brooklyn were HIV+), but nobody had been paying attention because the victims were poor with limited healthcare access. Most were also women, and the symptoms of AIDS are often less distinctive in women (for example, women are less likely to get Kaposi's sarcoma). It was only when HIV later jumped into the gay community at somw point later in the 1970s and cases of AIDS started to appear there, that the campaigning began. The gay community included more affluent and influential individuals, and many who'd been used to campaigning. Unfortunately, it also meant that society as a whole took the opportunity to extend their homophobia and label AIDS as a gay disease, a form of "divine punishment" from God. All the while the original victims and carriers of the virus, the poor, the ethnic minorities and the female, were largely airbrushed out because they didn't fit in with the homophobic narrative, and nobody had bothered to check whether they too had been infected.

We only became aware of HIV / AIDS in the 1980s but it seems that it was present in the USA and Europe significantly earlier than that. The case of teenager Robert Rayford in the 1960s in St Louis pointed to him being infected there in the 1950s. As early as 1939, small outbreaks of a specific type of pneumonia which is often linked to AIDS were noted in Danzig in Germany in prematurely born children, and then into the 1940s and 1950s in other nearby countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands. Researchers now believe that it was caused either by a milder strain of HIV or a related virus, and that it was passed by infected blood and equipment. They speculated that the virus had arrived in Germany from Cameroon, which had been a German colony.

I feel especially sorry for the people who contracted HIV before anybody knew it existed. I was a kid during the 80s and remember the very powerful public health campaigns. It terrified people but it probably saved a huge number of lives. HIV rates in the UK ended up being a fraction of those in the USA.

A real window into a rather frightening past (I was in my early 20s and there was a lot of anxiety and ignorance around). Can’t believe how young Ken Clarke looks, time waits for no one

Thank you for constant videos about AIDS in Britain. I often think British documentaries about the condition was more to the point and feels more realistic-like.

Well...that didn´t age well 😂

Start of this program is very 80s indeed. I miss the old Ch4 logo bit.

I can bearly hear John Hurt

It does seem the UK government were more concerned about AIDS than the US government were.

It will soon be proven that AIDS is the sustaining production of white “experts” and did not originate in AFRICA.

Famine, AIDS... my goodness me... Africa really did get hit hard.

Bobbie at the start looked too well to have AIDS. But she did and it seems she died in 1988. And this program is very 80s indeed. Reminds me of the adverts that was used in the UK to do with the virus.

Mr. Weaver, thank you so much for posting these videos. Sad that they didn't know what they didn't know back then.❤

That film critic could see into the future.

Thank you for all of these interesting videos Martin

Omg 😢 the 80s and 90s was the best times but also very dangerous I was born in 82 in the middle of this mess 😢 hope there all RIP 🪦

No one in this video survived in 1986. AZT get the most Aids Patiënt Max 8 months extra.

Pinching is a great man

Why is he still alive? 🧐

Thank you so much for posting all these videos, Martin. You posting these videos means that you are here with us, that is bloody wonderful and I hope you are doing well.

How very wrong they were!

Is the 1st woman still alive? What was her name?

Мы с мамой тоже поймали ВИЧ,но ей было не просто ей за 50,сразу на нервах гипертонический криз,давление ничем не сбивалось,попала в больницу.Просто мама недавно замуж вышла и такой сюрприз,а я бисексуал,каюсь,но это моя природа.У нас город маленький и к таким как мы боятся даже подойти.В столице ещё ничего.Пьëм таблетки и всё хорошо.

R.I.E.P Bill. I remember when you diagnosed. We used to panic when you came to see us. None of us understood things back then. Bless you sir

These uploads are an amazing look into a world that had changed very much by the time I was born almost exactly a decade later from this broadcast (16/03/96). By my time, AIDS seemed to not be death sentence, and although I'm not up-to-date with the disease, I believe that for many years it's been manageable.

I'd love to know who came up with the term *Wings* for the bits that fold on the sanitary towels. After all, what do we normally call bits of cardboard, paper or cloth that fold over something else? Why didn't they want to use that term?

This advert terrified me as a kid. Curious Fact, John Hurt was the narrator.

Television really wasn’t a good format for debate. Especially commercial tv. The time limit means nothing can be debated thoroughly & the moderator ends up ruining arguments.

Seriously thank you Martin. There is a lot of content available from the US of this time period, but that’s really it. You have given us a peak into how the UK handled the crisis. Cheers!

An absolute joke that UK govt only apologised now. That compensation is only being given now. And I can imagine the compensation process will be a bureaucratic nightmare to navigate for victims & families.

Great footage! Thank you for sharing

It's funny how the lives of these dudes just revolved around sex. The dude has a lethal disease and all he can rhink about is whether he can get somsom, and whether kissing or oral sex are safe.

Paid for by the biowarfare defense chapter, gallo studied the cancer lympho retroviruses for decades before the first early documented 1980/1981 cases in gay population appeared. A virus specifically created to target Tcell leukocytes and lymph glands to waste away human body. Engineered, perfected, isolated, and introduced into the gay population for sociopolitical reasons to halt their civil rights. Look at interview fauci stated at a fime when theyd just got their civil rights "a virus gets introduced" Interesting it began spreading in its incubation stage around the late 70s when Harvey Milk rose to political status in the gay community. Elitists have a long hostory of "introdicing" various things into groups, communities, movements they view a threat to their comfortable wealthy existence, to halt stop those they see as in their way. Even more infuriating is the destruction, de-rooting bulldozing decades ago of trees with bark that cleared the viroid immune cancer virus out of the body. They knew those trees cured the virus out if the body. Hope a wise honost research scientist grew the trees back to use as better meds like prep. D-32 gene stops the HIV human immune cancer virus also makes people immune to HIV and other cancers. They need to take D-32 cells from people who have D-32 and infuse those cells into hiv people asap. Make the D-32 gene cell infusion in a similar way for a vaccine. They've known about the D-32 gene since the late 80s. And they've known about the trees bark around same era. NO excuse so many millions of babies children and adults have suffered died worldwide when there are known cures all along. Evangelistic hypocritical preachers falsely claiming its the wrath of God when God would never punish or let innocent babies children suffer from the lethal cancer hiv. Damned hypocrite televangelists you aren't God but He will see to it you go to hell where you belong with your sanctimonious holier than thou bs. STOP blaming Africa. STOP blaming Haiti. STOP blaming the gay community when you elitists paid gallo n co to engineer the virus to suit your sociopolitical Narcissistic greedy agenda. Whether it's called HIV/HTLV 3, HHV9, SLIM, SIDA, Aids, ARC, the fact is it is Cancer as it was rightly called at the beginning. It is the Cancer institute looking for meds to stop the virus replicating. Not some other type of institute. Make it right and make the D-32 gene cell infusions into HIV person's asap. Make potent curative medicine from those trees bark. You created the damn thing so it's Your responsibility at Cancer In stitute to cure it. Are you getting paid to be so insipodly slow making the cure? Appears so when the cure has been available all along. There are reports that the mid 70s hepatitis vaccines aimed specifically at young Manhattan gay men purposely contained the cancer-genic pathogen called HIV. And they had to report back every 6 months after the vaccines to their doctors where their blood was tested. Either they were testing the blood to see any changes in leukocytes, drops in Tcell counts or to find out how long telltale infections P.carinni and HHV8/Kaposi's appeared, or the full blown symptoms took. So they're claiming "it was a new infectious agent we'd never seen before or known about" is a lie a coverup. Fauci let it out everyone suspected it was a virus. Nefarious all around. NO excuse for all those who've suffered and died and who are currently infected with the bio-engineered super-cancer hiv when there's the D-32 gene cure knowledge and those trees bark are cures. NO excuse. Truly there are RSVPs in the worst depths of hell for gallo, the wealthy elites financially behind him, the hypocritical ethically warped televangelist preachers, and Nancy Shmancy who's expensive designer gowns were paid for with the homeland budget cuts and Ol ronnie boy reagan who could afford those ridiculous designer gowns for his hideous freak looking wife yet couldn't cure millions of people from an engineered dreadful cancer virus.

So, why is it thar Reagan couldn't even say AIDS!

I wonder if Chris Gresham made it?

Greetings! This was 40 years ago. Do you feel as if it was yesterday?

Viv Taylor-Gee presenting.

that's my dad at around 12mins - a haemophiliac and victim of the infected blood scandal but I cannot believe how positive he is... he has the chance to hold the government to account and chose to talk about how he wouldn't change the treatment. we lost him in 1991, he was 45 - @Martin Weaver, you have no idea how grateful i am for you uploading this. I mean this quite literally, it's the only thing I have to remember him by and here he is, moving, speaking, smiling. Although I mean it, a 'thank you' doesn't seem to come close.