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🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In 1985 activists hand-stitched a giant quilt to commemorate friends and relatives killed by AIDS, and to campaign for more funding and research into the disease. It was the brain child of Cleve Jones, who explains to Rebecca Kesby what it was like to live through the HIV/AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. How the LGBT community had to pull together, as victims of AIDS were ostracised by the wider community during their worst moment of suffering.
(Photo: A section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Getty Images)
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1:21.6 | initially cost many lives, but that also changed our societies, |
1:26.9 | and in many countries human rights. In 1981, doctors in San Francisco began noticing that young healthy people were contracting a strange and deadly disease. |
1:38.0 | At the time, little was known about HIV AIDS, how to treat it, or how to prevent it. The city's vibrant LGBT community |
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