An AIDS educator interviewed by Daniel Connell for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 648607
- Format:
- Audio
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Apr. 2
- 4 tape reels (ca. 131 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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The interviewee describes his background in drugs and AIDS education; involvement in methadone programs; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; membership of both drug and gay communities; HIV risk & drug use; social attitudes to homosexuals & drug users; government contact with drug community; needle exchanges; peer groups; drug users & safe sex; attitudes of ex-drug users; reversal of AIDS campaign gains, esp. Victoria; Blewett; Baume; Puplick; international success of Australian response to AIDS; professionalisation of AIDS work; police training courses; proposed legalisation of heroin, ACT; gay dominance of AIDS funding; gay prejudice to other minority groups; need to broaden base of AIDS services; gay injecting drug users; opiate and other drug dependencies.
- 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 on 2 April 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 53 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Drug addicts -- Australian Capital Territory -- Health and hygiene
- Gays -- Health and hygiene -- Australian Capital Territory
- Intravenous drug abuse -- Australian Capital Territory
- AIDS (Disease) -- Australian Capital Territory -- Prevention
- Drug addicts -- Services for -- Australian Capital Territory
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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