Explained: The UK's forgotten epidemic | The fight against AIDS

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  • Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
  • HIV / AIDS is still considered a global epidemic by the World Health Organisation. Around 60 per cent of new infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK and US we view it as a distant crisis, but many members of the scientific and LGBT communities will never forget the horrific peak of the 1980s.
    Fran Drinkwater speaks to campaigners, an epidemiologist and AIDS survivor.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 55

  • @AndRewUK24
    @AndRewUK24 3 роки тому +35

    Just finished all off It's a Sin on All 4. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
    What's siad in the video is echoed in the Drama. Please watch It's a Sin TV Drama.

    • @willmt9728
      @willmt9728 3 роки тому +1

      It was so difficult to watch but it was amazing

    • @abbeymiller5031
      @abbeymiller5031 3 роки тому +4

      oh my god same 😭😭 just binged it and cried for an hour and now have been researching up on aids and hiv

    • @willmt9728
      @willmt9728 3 роки тому

      @@abbeymiller5031 did u just say binged it

    • @abbeymiller5031
      @abbeymiller5031 3 роки тому +1

      @@willmt9728 yeah lol why? that's when you watch all the episodes of a show in a short amount of time no? I started it yesterday and finished like an hour ago

    • @amyclarke41
      @amyclarke41 3 роки тому

      it blew my mind more than coronavirus in a way

  • @willmt9728
    @willmt9728 3 роки тому +37

    I just finished watching "it's a sin" didn't realise how bad it was, if I had been a teenager in the 80s I might be dead

    • @dedadeedadeedee2612
      @dedadeedadeedee2612 3 роки тому +8

      thats what brought me to research too its heartbreaking 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈better times ahead for everyone i hope

    • @Mawo3pg
      @Mawo3pg 3 роки тому +4

      I think alot of gay guys my age (37) think that we dodged a bullet by a decade 😏😔

    • @JamesBurdon-gu5yu
      @JamesBurdon-gu5yu 3 місяці тому

      There are consequences for your actions

  • @mylife2022
    @mylife2022 3 роки тому +14

    I was a teenager at the time and remember how scared everyone was. The ads were frightening.
    I watched skins recently and can't believe there's no 'safe sex' message, they all seem to be having sex all the time without protection.

  • @MusicLover88321
    @MusicLover88321 3 роки тому +8

    Very brave and inspirational people.. ♥️
    Respect to you all..

  • @stephanieking4444
    @stephanieking4444 3 роки тому +3

    I certainly have not forgotten this epidemic. Lost people to it. Supported many others living with it, both as a friend and as a worker in the HIV sector. The release of tritherapies in the late 90s was a game changer. Suddenly there was hope. But as society started to realise that HIV+ people were not dying in droves anymore, awareness rising and stigma busting efforts started to recede into the LGBTQ+ minority corner I'm part of. That's why so many cis-gendered straight people started being infected in the 2000s. and that is also why stigma still persists. There is still need for a general media campaign concerning awareness of what HIV is, whom it concerns and why it's better to not have it, as the existence of efficient therapies should never be mistaken for a ticket to ignoring the risk of infection.

  • @zwartepoesje
    @zwartepoesje 4 роки тому +9

    Solidarity x

  • @jamesbedukodjograham5508
    @jamesbedukodjograham5508 2 роки тому +1

    The Campaign against HIV must be intensified so that Young People can be saved from this Scourge of Humanity,
    The 1980s was a difficulty era for The HIV Pandemic in the globe.

  • @alexhearson9757
    @alexhearson9757 7 днів тому

    What lab did that come out of

  • @jackiechan3509
    @jackiechan3509 2 роки тому +1

    Why do America not want europeans to donate blood to America???????

  • @Mr84
    @Mr84 4 роки тому +4

    i miss 2019 it was shit in 2019 but its better know than 2020

    • @thehangmancometh1813
      @thehangmancometh1813 2 роки тому

      2019 was good for me and 2012 was I suppose. 2022 will better than all past years for me i think especially if i get laid

  • @josephgittamusisi4226
    @josephgittamusisi4226 3 роки тому +1

    Oooh!!!! It was a tough time for the world!!!!! Solidarity as we move on.

  • @jimcourt9164
    @jimcourt9164 3 роки тому +5

    This very very small community have cost the NHS billions

    • @TTBoy2
      @TTBoy2 3 роки тому +8

      Not nearly as much as alcoholism, obesity and smoking. Sad to see there's still homophobia around today

    • @jamesbedukodjograham5508
      @jamesbedukodjograham5508 2 роки тому

      Homophobia occurs because most Nations abhor it a lot.

    • @Adam-do8ny
      @Adam-do8ny Рік тому +2

      @jimcourt9164 human stupidity and hatred, such as the kind you have just exemplified, has cost humanity everything

    • @jimcourt9164
      @jimcourt9164 Рік тому

      @@Adam-do8ny PrEP cost £10000 a year, per gay. 10k each, just so that they can have unprotected sex. Jeez

    • @ob5023
      @ob5023 Рік тому

      @jimcourt9 you are not fit to be a human being! Scumbag is your name.

  • @amyclarke41
    @amyclarke41 3 роки тому

    interesting

  • @moerevlu1
    @moerevlu1 4 роки тому +4

    18yrs before Covid 19
    911
    18yrs before
    AIDS
    18yrs before
    JFK
    Jupiter, Pluto, Scorpion all together in Capricorn.

    • @IStandBrokenxo
      @IStandBrokenxo 3 роки тому +7

      and what about all the other thousands of tragic events that happened on all the other thousands of years... grow up.

    • @thehangmancometh1813
      @thehangmancometh1813 2 роки тому

      AIDS was 21 years before 9/11

  • @PaulFranks-cx3yd
    @PaulFranks-cx3yd Рік тому

    Propaganda