Ron Penny interviewed by Diana Ritch in June 1993 for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 647959
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Penny, Ronald, interviewee
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- 1993 Jun. 25
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 75 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Professor Ron Penny, Director, Centre for Immunology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, speaks of his background in medical research; setting up immunology laboratory St Vincent's Hospital; medical research funding; construction of Centre for Immunology building; first contact with AIDS as a disease; Sydney AIDS Study Group; epidemiological study of HIV & gay men; his representation on AIDS Taskforce, National Advisory Committee on AIDS & ANCA; lessons learned from AIDS epidemic; success of Australian response to the disease; needle exchange; support given to AIDS research by St Vincent's; Grim Reaper campaign; AIDS education; scientific advances made from AIDS study.
- 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 25 June 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Transcript (typescript, 35 leaves)
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