| Bib ID |
2178069 |
| Format |
Audio [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| Access Conditions |
Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. |
| Description |
1993 Jul. 26-Nov. 19
3 digital audio tapes (ca. 180 min.)
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| Series |
Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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| Summary |
Don Baxter, former President, AIDS Council of New South Wales, reflects on his experiences as President, AIDS Council of NSW, including: involvement in gay activism; Brian McGahen campaign; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; blood supply; early gay community response to HIV; government policy initiatives; ACON formation; safe sex education; contrast in Australian-American responses to the disease; ACON structure; NACAIDS; AIDS Task Force; AZT availability; ANCA; testing issue; AIDS national strategy; position as ACON Education Manager; Grim Reaper campaign; Commonwealth Dept. of Health; Macquarie University research; Richardson; dangers in mainstreaming AIDS services into sexual health services; AFAO; AIDS Trust; AIDS treatment; long term survivors; alternative therapies; comparison of AIDS & cancer research funding; heterosexual education campaigns; drug user HIV prevention programs; school HIV education; AIDS Councils & minorities; burnout; and comments on the contributions of other individuals in the Australian response to AIDS.
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| Notes |
Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS.
Preservation, working duplicate and cassette copies made.
Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on the 26 July and 19 November 1993.
Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Transcript available (typescript, 114 leaves) |
| Subjects |
Baxter, D. - Interviews. | AIDS Council of New South Wales. | AIDS (Disease) - Government policy - Australia. | HIV infections - Australia - Prevention. | HIV infections - New South Wales - Prevention. | AIDS activists - New South Wales - Sydney - Interviews.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Waites, James, 1955-, Interviewer | National Library of Australia | Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
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| Related records |
Australian response to AIDS oral history project
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