Joseph Daniel - 2016-03-18
An in depth documentary covering the history and science of AIDS.
I have a very good friend who was diagnosed in the mid 80's. His doctor told him to quit his job, liquidate his assets and make a will because he will be dead in a year. In 2021 my friend is still alive, healthy and is a marathon runner. BTW his doctor died.
The hemophiliac that was one of the first diagnosed he lived five years
It kills the T cells and imprents the aid cell that’s why they always check your T cell count
And parents who have turned away their child.
One of the major ways people got it thru needles
Maybe he never really had it. Some. Ppl think because they’re partner is infected they automatically are too. But I’m happy to hear this
Everyone should keep in mind that this virus has not gone away. There is still no cure. You will be dependent on drugs for the rest of your life if you contract it. We still need to keep up the fight against it until we've eradicated it.
Why was COVID vaccine done in a year, but still no vaccine for HIV
@Anna Costello Wisniewski HIV is far more complicated. Did you watch the video? It covers itself with a sugar your body recognises and won't attempt to repel.
@TheBroknPezDispenser :D :D :D :( :( :(
Actually there is a cure. A man a few years ago was cured of it after receiving a bone marrow transplant from someone who is immune to the disease. The bone marrow made him immune as well. Unfortunately, it’s just not a viable cure as there are risks associated with bone marrow transplants.
@Sami LO do you have the study? I'm curious to know how bone marrow would relate to cells.
it's heartbreaking to think that people who contracted AIDS were treated like leprosy like some kind of rejects. all alone.
@takecare A lies. The 1st case of HIV/AIDS in the USA was a gay man in San Francisco.
@Deevine right. What's your point?
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@psychonine It’s none of your business. Your obsession with the sex lives of others makes you a pervert. The obsession is not normal.
In the early 80's I worked in an AIDS clinic and I had 2 gay brothers, I tried to treat everyone with love & empathy, for years I was afraid to be tested because I hugged and kissed all my patients. After many years I found out I was OK. But I would never change anything, people need people!!!!🙏😚💕💕💕😚Loving the sick and dying is my job and I wouldn't change anything! !!💕😚💕💕💕💕
Thank you, Pat. 🙏🏼 may God bless you always!
Beautiful souls like yours make the world so awesome!
We all thank you because we wanted to be you. Maybe we weren't in a the right place at the right time...or maybe we weren't brave enough. My daughter was a nurse and she was among the many who had accidental sticks with a needle she had used in treating a patient. I think being brave is making the decision to "do the hard thing." Its odd, but even patients with non HIV related cancers are deserted by their friends. No one wants to be involved with those who need help.
You angel :)
@Marielle Wills that is so true about people who want nothing to do with the sick. When I got sick eight years ago I found out very quickly who my friends and family were! I had people offer to bring me dinner who never shown up... friends who just didn’t even want to hear about how much pain I was in. I quit talking and pulled away. I use to be a massage therapist. I have always helped others...many of my friends had surgeries, I would take them in my home and help them until they were well again. I have had 18 surgeries in 8 years... my animals are my best friends. My sister has taken good care of me as well. What people forget is we are all human! We can all get sick at any time! What people also forget is STD’s or cancer do not have faces or skin color! It is so important to that we all take good care of each other and we so often don’t. Since getting sick some of the worst people I have met in my life have been doctors! So many of them are not healers, they do not care about pain or suffering. Bless your daughter, we need more earth angels like her.
And I felt so sorry for Ryan white the way people treated him. he was also a brave kid. may he rest I peace.😗😗😗
Be mad at those that tainted the blood supply! That caused White to die.
elton john was so nice to them those last days
discdoggie I wonder who they voted for 🧐 not
I wish people had the same compassion for gay men before he was infected. But few did
The same people who wanted him out of school back then would cry about "cancel culture" if they were to face consequences of their actions today.
Such a fabulous documentary.
My mom was a nurse in the late 80s and early to mid 90s, and I remember this period of time so well... she read almost anything she could get her hands on about HIV/ AIDS to better educate people, especially when we found out her brother was HIV+.
She got so burned out from watching patients die and often sitting with them in their last moments because their friends and families were too scared to visit. I remember too many nights where my mom would get home from work and just cry.
I can't watch this and not think about some of the parallels back then with HIV/ AIDS and COVID now... it doesn't appear that the some of people who are in positions of leadership in this country right now have learned from the past.
Your Mum is a Hero. God bless you both ❤️❤️❤️
Bless the nurses.
It’s not the same as Covid .
@The Don well duh, I know that. I'm talking about the similarity in the lack of response and failure to take it seriously, not the actual virus.
Did your uncle hang on long enough to reap the benefits of anti-retroviral therapy? If not I’m sorry for your loss.
My grandma had a neighbor who's son had AIDS. He ended up having to move back home. His mother was so terrified of catching AIDS she obsessively cleaned the house with bleach. She died from burning up her lungs because of the bleach. I still find the sick irony of the situation. Education is key.
This not only about poor education it’s also about hysteria and over reaction
I had a friend with AIDS who moved back home with his mother. They both died in a house fire. 😥
@Roxanne Moser that's very sad.
Wow
@Roxanne Moser what
It's astonishing to me that back then they allowed drug addicts etc to sell their blood to a blood bank. And that blood, which was basically untested, was then injected into others!!! Good GOD!!!! That's crazy!
@Jay B There was no test at the time
More of the good work done by the social justice warriors fighting discrimination against gay blood donors
Money money money ....
@tony Miller
The lack of scientific knowledge that led to infected and dangerous blood circulating within the blood donation system isn’t the same issue as today’s too broad ban on Gay people being able to donate blood. A man with one male partner can’t give blood, but a hetero person who sleeps with hundreds can donate. We are at a stage where that should be able to be figured out. So don’t use the health care system as a weapon for your ignorance and most likely hateful political ideology.
@Tabby Moonshine The lack of scientific knowledge they bsdnt identifed the virus but they knew it was blood borne by the fact 95pct of those dying at the timevwere gay or iv users
Stopping donations from these groups dud not require a nobel prize yet you woykd be hapoy to kill haemophiliics back then as you wuldnr want to offend some groups
I wohkd rather save lives
Go andvget the opinion if the families whi lost their kids from infected blood and use your real name rather than hiding behind a pseudonym
Rip Freddie Mercury and all the other fallen
From doing a lot of research on Freddie Mercury, I came across some info which stated that once Freddie was officially diagnosed with AIDS (mid to late 80’s), he started treatment right away. As time when on, they were trying ANYTHING in the way of medicine, including experimental drug cocktails. They essentially used him as a human guinea pig.
They claim that by Freddie volunteering for said experiment treatments, it had a direct impact on the doctors finding the correct cocktail of drugs that is used to this day to treat, or at least slow the disease down. Had Freddie lived 6-8 months longer, he would of benefited from the new treatment, possibly saving his life. Freddie’s selflessness saved thousands of lives.
After Freddie passed, and following Freddie’s will instructions, a charity was set up to help fund the search for the cure/vaccine for AIDS. It is called the Mercury Phoenix Trust. It’s still very much active today in helping to stop this horrific disease. God Bless You Freddie, and may you Rest In Peace. 😌♥️♥️
One thing I take from this documentary is that there is always someone at each corner who is going to fight for what is right. Evil is strong but good will always prevail.
MAGA, this week should be interesting ! The truth will prevail!
BS
Evil meaning penis in a buttom?
“With SARS, we came to realize that disease can affect economic and social development “ Too bad that lesson was soon forgotten.
@Matt Brown yeah really it's covid-19
My husband did business in China, and he was all set to travel there. His hosts were wonderful and told us that SARS was rampant, don't come now. Of course we were more than acquaintances, but not close friends. They called all the others from different countries also and cancelled the meeting. I'm sure it affected the business at the time. I can't recall how much time passed before my husband made a trip back. One wonders how soon people, businesses in the USA really began to cancel things after Covid set in.
@Mike Marley That damned Obama. I can't believe he allowed so many people to die while W Bush was president.
I’m sure it didn’t help that the same people in charge at the time of the AIDS epidemic are in charge of managing the COVID-19 pandemic
@Mike Marley 630,000 deaths later..
Rental of syringes......I cannot imagine anything more dangerous. Even back then. You had hepatitis spreading. The thought of using a second hand, third hand syringe, sends shivers down my spine. Those people must have known that blood borne disease existed, even before AIDS. I worked as a sterilisation technician for years.....probably why it makes me shudder so badly. I KNOW how important it is to have sterilised equipment. Wow!
As a recovering iv heroin user this makes me sick like who came up with that idea. And I totally understand being “dope sick” and not having a needle out of desperation I almost used someone’s needle not knowing this person and I remember thinking she looks clean I can trust her but luckily she wouldn’t and bought me my own new one and yelled at me to never do that no matter how sick and desperate I was. I wish I could thank her because I was 16 when that happened now I’m 39 married with a beautiful 2 year old girl and have been clean from drugs for a long time and thankfully somehow did not catch anything
@Taralynn Torres Carrera Lopez brilliant
Pommie bears, Rental of syringes Yep ! Liberal heavens turned straight into Hell by allowing anything and everything to go on regardless of how it actually destroys society. And of course society equals individual people that died due to over indulgent and abused freedoms.
Syringes were rented because exchange programs were discouraged if not prohibited by governments that were mostly conservatives.
You'd be surprised how many pharmacies still won't sell syringes. Even now after the aids and hep c problems. I was in Virginia Beach area just a couple of years ago and couldn't buy them!
No one should become rich on the misery of others
Welcome to america
@Nicolina Danielle Man shut the fuck up. That's the world.
@ManMonkey600 😂😂😂😂💙
Greed. Karma will get them. I just feel sad for those who died of Aid. Their last moments in life must've been scary knowing you'll die soon 😭 i hope they rest in peace.
It say's a lot about us humans with the comment in the beginning about bumpers stickers that said that "AIDS kill all the right people". I can only guess that many people with such stickers would also call themselves Christians. So as a person that honestly believe in Jesus, I can only say that you are loved by Christ, and that nothing can take that away from you. Jesus is worth following. People are rarely worth the same.
I noticed this documentary didn't include that Cutter (one of the major companies involved in making the blood products for haemophiliacs) continued to make the older products (contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C) after producing the newer heat-treated products. So, what did they do with their excess non-heated inventory? They sold the older contaminated products to Asia and Latin America.
Omg this was ALL I heard about growing up. It was traumatic. When I was like 9 some girl kissed me on the cheek and I was CONVINCED that I had AIDS. Seriously traumatic.
I was even scared of it as a child in the 90s. I remember thinking I could get it from my friend's pet rats. Must not have been much education about it.
I’m from Massachusetts too
I was crying at 8 thinking I had AIDS.
Have you been tested?
@scrappy pooh dude, covid has killed 630,000 people in one year.
AIDS has killed 700,000 in 40 years.
Covid is far worse. AIDS was never anywhere near as transmissible.
"It's not a problem that money could solve. It's a problem that's scientists could solve". If scientists don't have enough funding. How r they gonna b able to do research to solve the problem?
Yeah that's true it could have been handled so much better
Childish even today with money funding biggest paris lab who discover aids they still find a solution to this kind so what money are taking about and which scientists at that time american scientists was unknown of this virus up European scientists who come up with its discovery so even with today large amounts of funding nothing are able to sort this out
Well funding=money. So yes..money solves everything, but this should be FREE. All the world leaders should get together...work together and make this a free drug!
Condom use??? Much easier than medical research
This was an excellent documentary. It's so important to spread awareness about this awful disease and the impact it's had on people. I was born in early 2003 and so I have always viewed HIV/AIDS as being an old disease that was really only present in the seventies and eighties. Now, I realise how wrong I was and my heart goes out to everyone suffering
Grace Hunter it is still very much around. Don’t let your guard down. A condom could literally save your life (although you’re way less likely to develop AIDS and die with the drugs they have available today) this statement is so true. A condom could save you so much pain and heartache.
We lost a family member to aids. He died at 29. Wish he had the drugs they have now so he would still be with us. I miss him.
I’m so sorry for you loss sweetheart
I'm so sorry 😞. Same my mom passed in 95 from this. She kept it a secret. She only told very few. My grandma her mom found out when she was in the hospital dying. I Miss her terribly. Sometimes I think if she only could of lived long enough for the medicine 💊 she hopefully would still be her. I think her diagnosis is what made her give up. I was only 12 when she passed. Anyway so sorry 😞 for your loss again. I know exactly how you feel!!! 💚🙏🧡❣
@spalcy so sorry for your loss. I Lost my mother in 95. I am so happy your sister is still with you though. 💗
@Well Hello There So sorry for your loss. Lost my mother in 95 to this. Very sad 😥 and traumatic to lose a loved on from this horrible virus.
I lost a cousin to AIDS but we were told it was cancer ....technically it was but the cancer was fascilitated by a decimated immune system ....my aunt and uncle were afraid of the stygma
This is bar none the best and most thorough documentary on the AIDS crisis. Thank you for sharing this.
I used it for a report in a class a few years back. Every single gay man in the world should see this. Young gay people don't realize how bad it still is. They think: I can take a pill and I will be allright. They go and party get drunk and do "bareback" like it's a joke. I have a friend over 40 who is now HIV positive. This I am sure is how he got it.
@seer16 "AND THE BAND PLAYED ON" PRECEDED THIS DOCUMENTARY.
There is another one which lasts more than 5 hours. Amazing history!
@mickeymouse2able not only gave men, every person who is sexually active should watch this! I showed it to my 16 yr old little sister.
@Joelle Xaverie that’s completely true, however young gay men these days are particularly reckless and uneducated about AIDS/HIV, even after all that happened within the gay community in the 80s and 90s. IMO EVERYONE should watch this and educate themselves on how tragic this situation was and still is
Just like with COVID! The Government lacked response. Very sad.
Such a tragic time back in the early 80’s with the AIDS Pandemic. So sad for all those who were abandoned and lost their lives to this and having to deal with the stigma that followed was horrific, especially on the kids. RIP to all of them😔😢❤️❤️❤️
This is probably the best documentary on the HIV / AIDS epidemic. Frontline material is always top quality.
I tested positive in '92 at the age of 17, I'm alive and kicking. Ha
Good for yu
S 01 dont yu think that’s getting personal
I lost dozens of friends and attended at least one funeral a month for a solid year. The darkest period of my life.
Hallelujah
Yes. I’m getting sick of this attitude “now you can bareback anyone anytime! No reason to worry about infecting loved ones when you lie and cheat and sleep around!” It’s like— it’s great there are treatments and preventative drugs,, but they’re not foolproof, effective, or available to everyone. Not everyone takes prep— example: women who have male partners that sleep with men without telling them…
One of the BEST DOCS EVER!!!! Please watch all 3 hours! Best thing you can do on a long, rainy or snowy Sunday. Makes you grateful for this huge kind world!
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I find it odd that a very good version of what EVERYONE was hoping and praying for through the early years of HIV, is here. With PREP and like products..it’s changed everything just recently...no fan fare...barely a ballon pop...extremely anti climatic... of course, it’s not over..but this is a game changer. Can you imagine the reaction in the 80s or early 90s?
as i am watching this, tears come to my eyes. so much fear and ignorance about AIDS....i lost many friends, including my cousin back in 1989. Yet his parents refused to acknowledge that he had AIDS, and his father said...I'D RATHER HAVE HIM DIE, THAN TO KNOW MY SON IS A FAGGOT....Karma came calling.....my cousin passed away on Fathers' day in 1989!!! #RIP cuzzo
Nobody, no matter how anyone feels about who they are or what they do, deserves this. It's heartbreaking that there are many people who disagree.
Poor little kid at the end is heartbreaking.
So heartbreaking. I am so glad that we have come a long way towards removing the stigma and finding a cure. HIV/AIDS is no longer a guaranteed death sentence. God, I can’t imagine the terror of living through this in a high risk population.
This was great, very informative. I remember how horrible it was in the 80s even though I was a kid. We were scared to death. So many died back then.
Yes, I was in my teens, moved to NYC at the height of it. So little information, too scared to help our friends who got sick.
Watching this now during Covid, makes you realize what fear does. We need to be very careful not to have repeats of this.
Too late.
To not prejudice and demonize people
Excellent documentary. I took care of some AIDS patients. It shocked me how much they resembled cadavers, how many parents abandoned them in their suffering and the emotional terror they shared. Broke my heart.
I am so glad we have learned better and are much more educated about this now. What people had to go through was horrific. I can understand why people were afraid and lashed out (people still do this all the time) and it’s sad.
So many aspects of the origins, spread, history and treatment of AIDS, and the concomitant stultifying political maneuvering are covered so well in this documentary. Thank you so much for posting this.
I was entering my sexual awakening in the AIDS era and felt cheated . However , once I realized that AIDS began its spread in the seventies during the wake of the sexual revolution without any warning it became clear to me that I was fortunate that AIDS was no longer an unknown danger . I was better prepared than the generation beforre me .
I hadn’t heard bout ppl vilifying and victimizing kids and their families to extent of burning their homes down. It shames me deeply as a human being.
Today there trump supporters
The same people if exposed today would cry about "cancel culture". It's amusing to see how bigots don't want to bear any consequence of their bigotry that has altered lives of other people.
@Tequilah BLM did the burning down, liar. 🖕🖕
@Ammar Hasan Agree with you!! These stupid people have double morality to this day! Yikes!!!!
@Wacky Wayfarer And who killed and wounded officers at the Capitol? Is that what “patriots” do? Lol. Ironically, the same beings will shout that “Blue Lies Matter” (correction: Lives—just not to the “blues” themselves, who can’t seem to stop offing themselves at alarming rates. Lady Justice works in mysterious ways.).
I just watched "And the Band Played On" and it mirrors this documentary. Great actors, great movie
The book is even better
This video should be shown on TV today as a teaching tool for the younger generation.of this terrible disease and how it devastated the world.😗😗😗😗😗
@Whitney Dyer I suppose you never did any research into 9/11 just as you did not research into HIV not being the cause of AIDS. You are not worth debating. Snowflakes dissipate under a little heat. I just wanted to confirm what you thought about 9/11. You're a moron to believe the official story.
@Ronin Tsukebin - I lived in Manhattan and was there when everything happened. Why not debate truths, not your denialist claims. You believe AIDS is caused by drug use & poverty and 9/11 just didn’t happen? Your incorrect: I like debating with intelligent people and denialist are not intelligent by any standard.
@Whitney Dyer You're nothing but a troll. Your supposedly living in Manhattan does not have any bearing on the truth. The buildings never would have collapsed by a commercial airliner hitting them. The official story is so absurd that only a fool would believe it! Yes, I did I buy at first, but then I spent hundreds of hours researching all the inconsistencies in the official story and came to the conclusion not a single commercial airliner crashed in NYC, Washington or Shanksville. Yes, and coronavirus is another big lie and scam. The virus does exist and some people die, but it is easily treatable with Invermectin and other drugs.
It should be shown on TV to discourage men from fucking other fellas in the ass.
Yes I agree. My daughter & I have been watching it for three days now. It’s very sad to know it’s still a pandemic. Thank God for science & medicine. Pray everyone no matter their ethnicity or status have full access to health care / medicines for HIV/AIDS I’m also very grateful to the brave men & women who have been persistent in ensuring a solution to this deadly virus. I pray for us all to unite & help each other rise over & conquer this real pandemic like any other humanity killer. Stay strong & thank you for your positivity 🤗💐
Seeing that innocent child at the end makes me cry...
Remember that condoms are only as effective at preventing disease, as they are at preventing pregnancy - so oral contraceptive 99% but condom pregnancy rate - still 25% failure rate. So it's a good practice, but falls short however stopping 75% of sexually transmitted AIDS is impressive. But don't gamble your life on the odds. There are now class action suits against old class HIV supression, AZT is one, after 30 years' the toxic effect is happening - so science needs to find a new class of drugs - the safe sex practices fell in direct correlation with transmission decline. So risky needle sharing risky sex all came back, AZT is now killing the first wave of treated cases seen here - so if they box AZT and you get HIV the fatality rate will skyrocket once again.
Attacking families with children who have haemophilia is absolutely beyond disgusting and for President Reagan to turn his back on those who contracted and developed this horrific disease is unforgivable. Ignorance is definitely not bliss! RIP to all the victims of AIDS and positivity and strength for those living with HIV.
Terrible how the other parents drove that child with hemophilia+hiv away from school shouting "you're not killing m baby!" as if he and his parents were doing that.
I don't think I would be able to control my anger if some 1 said to my child, I probally would of did something very bad to that person
I doubt that even a booklet with information about aids would have done any good. Those people yelling hateful things probably couldn't have read the booklet anyway. I can never understand why anybody would want to fill their hearts and their days with that hate. Thats the example they choose to show their children. I will never understand. 😔
You guys aren't coming off as very tolerant either.
The people that acted this way either did not understand how AIDS was spread, knew but were scared anyway, or were just horrible people. Precautions were in place for schools. How often does anyone bleed in a school, where it would touch anyone? My son got a nose bleed in gym class in Middle School. The teacher put on gloves, rushed into the bathroom with him and stood him over the sink with paper towels to his nose until the bleeding. The custodian (in gloves) was right there and disposed of the tissues in the appropriate red bag, and scoured the sink. My son was taken to the nurses office and I was called to pick him up.
@Kathleen Ferber In my opinion it is not just that they are uneducated, this is an example of a bunch of Hypocrites hunting down a child!!! A bunch of church going Hypocrites that is what I saw, full of themselves and hateful!
As a just newly graduated in the healthcare field, the most interesting thing for me to study HIV was that very early on in AZT and its cocktails, they thought the virus was “mutating” or develo[omg resistance, was really not even close to that theory. What was happening was the scientists didn’t realize that ever Med they tried only worked on HIV in its specific period or stage of existence. When they were successful in one stage, they needed to understand its next stage and third stage and so forth. While HIV undoubtedly developed resistance and still can continue to this day, it was still as simple as scientists just learning on the job on how this virus replicated and lives on through different stages. I am beyond interested in HIV. I hope before I retire in the healthcare field in the next 20 some years, a chance to work in Infectious Disease, particularly as an HIV counselor.
I'm in the mood to watch "Philadelphia" now.
Why?
@Quint It's a movie starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington that is about AIDS.
@Quint it's a movie about the discrimination surrounding the AIDS virus. I should also suggest the Ryan White story.
@Roxanne Moser Ryan white was a good friend of mine he died too young f to respect
I thought that I had read every book and watched every film/documentary on this topic....I was wrong.....This was SUPERB! As a gay hemophiliac..........living through this era.......it was a nightmare. It was a nightmare! My parents had 4 boys........all of us had Hemophilia A. During this time, my parents were heartbroken.....and in total denial. My poor Mom.......She stopped watching TV and reading the newspapers. In 1985, my doctor advised me to take the first generation HIV test. When I met with him, he said........"You know that it is going to be Positive.......You need to be prepared." I was devastated. I couldn't tell my Mom. That evening I met with my partner .........and we cried for hours. I was convinced that he would leave me. He didn't....(We would be together for almost 40 years.) It would be almost 10 days before we got the results. The test result showed that I was Negative. My doctor was baffled. He insisted that I retake the test....................... Again the wait............. Again the same result.............. Negative. Despite using the same infected blood products, I had not become infected. Neither had my 3 brothers. I wouldn't learn the reason why until the mid 1990's. At an annual appointment, my Hemophilia nurse took Ray and I aside. She had to tell us something. I'll never forget that meeting. She told us.......that my brothers and I had a genetic mutation........the CCR5-delta 32 mutation. It rendered us totally immune to an HIV infection. The virus could not infect our T-Cells. My brothers and I were homozygous for this mutation........ This meant that my parents each carried one half of this mutation. They transmitted the complete (homozygous) trait to their sons.........providing full immunity. The odds for this happening......I can't even imagine. My Mom would pass knowing her boys were safe. From that fateful day, I have lived my life in a manner to show my eternal gratitude.
Thank you for sharing. ❤
Researchers found that descendants of ancestors who survived through different plagues in Europe passed down a gene where they are immune to HIV and AIDS.
Thank you for sharing
That's an amazing story God bless you
I learned about the delta 32 mutation from a Timeline episode about a particular village in England where most of the inhabitants survived the plague (black death) because they had that mutation. They passed it down to some of their descendants. It blocks the HIV virus from invading the body. I was absolutely fascinated by this episode. I never knew such a mutation existed. I wonder if it can be replicated/inserted into newborns or in utero to prevent/eradicate HIV for future generations
Fire in the blood is a very interesting Netflix doc covering the way bigpharma profit from Africans with aids it's a tough watch but educational n gets your gears grinding at times.
This is sad, i had no idea how in depth this was. I sadly was blind to most of this. I'm sorry to all those that suffer.
2:36:26 Really took me back. I was a children's registered nurse at Red Cross Children's hospital in Cape Town. I worked on the medical ward and 40 - 50% of admissions were due to HIV infection
Anonymous Adult - 2019-04-20
I had surgery in 1991... the doctor advised that I store my own blood at the hospital before the surgery... that way, they could transfuse my own blood, if needed, during surgery... my doctor was very concerned about “bad blood” at the blood banks... I am so thankful for his forethought
Combat Duckie - 2021-04-04
i had a big surgery with lots of bloodloss to be expected scheduled around start of the 80s and asked the doctors at the hospital to only consider giving me blood factors or transmissions if i should be in extreme emergency situation during the operation and imminent danger of dying. I checked lateron, i had gotten no blood. After the surgery they still tried to talk me into taking blood factor for a faster recovery but i said i do not want it due the danger of hiv infection and rather go for a slow recovery....i felt a bit ridiculed by the doctors and not taken seriously much...but i had already read one or 2 press articles in German news magazines about "a new disease" a few months before and was SURE it was transmitted thru blood too and not just se*...at that time they were still thinking that it was only transmitted via se*...
Zeza Von Zay - 2021-07-05
thank you for being on this earth your life matters and always will
julestr520 - 2021-07-23
@di butler how did she contacted aids by working?
Julia Barone - 2021-08-17
My cousin was born 1983 she had to be tested for years because she had transfusion
Marielle Wills - 2021-08-22
Unfortunately, it's true. One thing learned during research hasn't really reached young people. It wasn't only HIV that was found in the blood of gay men. There were dozens of DNA fragments. Unprotected sex exposes us to whatever is in our partner's blood or sperm.supermarket. of course not all viruses are retro viruses, but there is still an unknown.