Carolyn McKenny interviewed by Heather Rusden for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 647996
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McKenny, Carolyn, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Aug 6
- 3 tape reels (ca. 109 min.) ; 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Carolyn McKenny, mother of Stephen McKenny, a haemophiliac who died of medically acquired AIDS, speaks of her son's ability to communicate about AIDS; his haemophilia; ACT haemophilia support services; her first awareness of AIDS as a disease; notification of possible HIV infected blood having been used by her son; haemophilia-gay community relations; Blood Bank; community attitudes to people with medically acquired HIV; Stephen's positive diagnosis; disclosing his positive status; effect of HIV on his haemophilia management; HIV related infections; attitudes of medical personnel; discrimination; Stephen's involvement with the Haemophilia Support Group; AIDS Action Council; Haemophilia Foundation; humour; Stephen's management of his illness; last stages of his disease; his journals; compensation issue; Grim Reaper campaign; AIDS education; Australian response to AIDS; Mark Fitzpatrick Trust; parent workshops.
- Notes:
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- Part of 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 on 6 August 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed transcript avaiable.
- Subject:
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- McKenny, Carolyn -- Interviews
- McKenny, Stephen -- Health
- Parents of AIDS patients -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Interviews
- Hemophiliacs -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Biography
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Biography
- HIV infections -- Social aspects
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- Creation date:
- 1993
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