Don Baxter interviewed by James Waites for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2178069
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Baxter, D, interviewee
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- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993 Jul. 26-Nov. 19
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 181 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
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- 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.
- Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on the 26 July and 19 November 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
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- Transcript available (typescript, 114 leaves)
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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