podcast

A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today

by BBC Radio Wales

8. Born this Way

19.08.2022 • 00:37:15

In the final episode of A Positive Life, Sam Smith explores the experiences of young people in the UK who were born with HIV, and looks at what's next...

7. Some Things Stay The Same

12.08.2022 • 00:35:50

Sam Smith explores HIV stigma and misinformation in the Noughties, and how people from marginalised communities are still being left behind today, eve...

6. Baby Love

05.08.2022 • 00:33:35

Sam Smith explores the ways HIV affects women and child-bearing parents, and the ongoing fight to end gender inequality and stigma within the fight fo...

5. Breakthrough

29.07.2022 • 00:36:38

Sam Smith explores how the 1990s brought new, effective treatments for HIV that changed people's lives forever - and hears how peer support networks w...

4. Infected Blood

22.07.2022 • 00:35:59

Sam Smith explores how more than a thousand haemophiliacs in the UK acquired HIV through their treatment - in what's come to be known as the contamina...

3. An Epidemic Begins

15.07.2022 • 00:34:16

Sam Smith explores how AIDS became headline news in the 1980s, and how communities came together to raise public awareness - and fight a growing tide ...

2. See You On The Dance Floor

08.07.2022 • 00:33:18

Sam Smith explores Terry Higgins' life in 1970s and 80s London. His closest friends remember his unforgettable character, and a community on the edge ...

1. A Boy From Wales

01.07.2022 • 00:30:27

Terrence Higgins was one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness. But Terry also lived. Sam Smith explores his early life as a...

Trailer

24.06.2022 • 00:02:46

Sam Smith presents stories of HIV in the UK over the last 40 years; beginning with the life of Terrence Higgins, one of the first British people to di...