A former AIDS worker and HIV positive man interviewed by James Waites for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 627528
- Format:
- Audio
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- 1992 Nov. 23
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 54 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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The interviewee describes his family background; acknowledging his homosexuality; Melbourne gay scene, 1970s; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; first HIV incidences in Sydney; early theories regarding HIV transmission; discrimination; suspicions to testing in gay community; contracting HIV; friends' deaths; health problems since diagnosis; AZT use; professional advice; effects of stress; retirement; living with HIV; attitude to death; advice to newly sero-converted people; support systems.
- 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 at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, N.S.W. on 23 November 1992.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 24 leaves) and time coded transcript available.
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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- 1992
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