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Sep 16, 2021 · Forty years ago, the UK found itself in the grip of a virus that killed thousands of people and sparked fear, confusion and prejudice – HIV. Janet Weston explores the Aids crisis as it unfolded throughout the 1980s, and how it transformed attitudes about everything from sexuality to healthcare.
- Elinor Evans
By the end of 1985, a test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was available in the UK. Voluntary HIV antibody testing showed that HIV was highly concentrated in three groups: gay and bisexual men, people who inject drugs and people with haemophilia receiving blood products (Factor VIII).
Oct 16, 2005 · Although the target of the campaign was HIV, it actually had a profound effect on all sexually transmitted infections. Following the campaign, the number of diagnoses of gonorrhoea in England and...
In the years following the AIDS epidemic, medical research has given us a better understanding of HIV and AIDS, as well as made some remarkable breakthroughs unimagined in the 1980s: today,...
Jan 28, 2016 · AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is a condition in which a weakened immune system leads to vulnerability to infections; back in the 1980s there was no treatment and no...
What's clear is that while the centring of North America in Aids fiction is understandable – given the epidemic there counted for the lion's share of HIV infections and deaths in the West ...
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AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa.
