HIV/AIDS in Australia

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today, on World AIDS Day, we discuss the history of HIV and AIDS in Australia, from its first arrival in 1982 until the present day. In this episode you’ll learn about the infamous Grim Reaper ad campaigns, the tireless battle of queer Australians to help each other in this time, and how the country’s positive response to the epidemic saved the lives of many gay and bisexual men. Transcript available here.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact. I'm Alice.
0:02.7	I'm Hamish.
0:03.6	And I'm Aering. We're a twice-monthly queer history podcast coming out on the first and 15th of each month.
0:08.8	In each episode, we talk about a person, a place or a topic in queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:15.2	Today, it's World AIDS Day, and so we're going to be talking about the history of the AIDS epidemic in Australia.
0:28.5	Music and so we're going to be talking about the history of the AIDS epidemic in Australia. Just a few content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:31.3	Obviously we'll be talking about HIV and AIDS.
0:33.8	We'll also be discussing periodical homophobia.
0:36.6	There's a couple of mentions of illegal drug use and of suicide,
0:40.1	as well as explicit discussions of sex and a few swear words.
0:44.2	So if any of that sounds like something you don't want to hear,
0:46.2	feel free to check out any of our other episodes.
0:48.3	We have content warnings at the start of all of them.
0:50.5	There's a couple of things I want to say before I start.
0:52.9	So firstly, obviously the AIDS epidemic
0:55.0	was worldwide and I've decided to focus only on Australia. Firstly, because we're in Australia
0:59.7	and I had to focus somewhere. And secondly, because as an introduction to talking about this,
1:04.6	Australia is pretty positive. We had a pretty good reaction and handled it pretty well. So we're
1:09.9	not in for like a super dark story where everyone it pretty well. So we're not in for like
1:10.9	a super dark story where everyone just dies horribly. So obviously AIDS affected a lot of communities,
1:15.5	but it was most prevalent among men who have sex with men. So while it did affect sex workers
1:22.0	and injecting drug users and those communities had to deal with a lot of things during the epidemic,
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