Phillip Carswell interviewed by Adam Carr for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2171006
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Carswell, Phillip, 1953-2024, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993 June 6
- 6 tape reels (ca. 187 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Carswell, Manager, AIDS STD Unit, Health Department, Victoria and former President, Victorian AIDS Council, speaks of his first awareness of AIDS as a disease; Victorian response to AIDS; Victorian Aids Action Committee (VAAC) & Victorian AIDS Council (VAC); government liaison; blood bank; support networks; early prevention education & medical advice; Fairfield Hospital; Queensland baby deaths; AIDS Task Force; NACAIDS; advisory position with Health Dept., Victoria; AIDS testing issue; Queensland AIDS Council funding; AFAO establishment; Gay Men's Community Health Centre; Grim Reaper campaign; prophylaxis; coping with AIDS deaths; AIDS Councils; mainstreaming of AIDS health services; ACT UP; dealing with different levels of government; Candlelight Vigil; Quilt Project; Australian response to AIDS; cross cultural education; Aboriginal AIDS issues.
- 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 6 June 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 113 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Carswell, Phillip, 1953-2024 -- Interviews
- Victorian AIDS Council
- Victoria. Health Department
- Australia. National Advisory Committee on AIDS
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Australia
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Victoria
- AIDS (Disease) -- Australia -- Prevention
- HIV infections -- Victoria
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