Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis | Episode 8 | No Harm

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  @cathyspencer3058 · 2 years ago

  I’m a full time caregiver. For the last four years I’ve been caring for my mother who has Alzheimer’s. We are nearing the end of the final stage. This path is difficult. <br><br>I often select a topic to learn about to force me to focus on something else, help me exercise my brain and learn whatever I can. <br><br>This series helped me learn so much about the AIDS crisis and illness/response in general. I’ve gained a greater depth of understanding and compassion towards others. &nbsp;I experienced a wide range of emotions that I didn’t anticipate. <br><br>I’m going to listen to the series again because it generated new questions related to this and other topics and it helped answer questions developed through other limited AIDS research I’d done. &nbsp;Life long learning isn’t always comfortable, but for me it is necessary.<br>Thank you

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• TR

  @truthteller666-d5d · 2 years ago

  During the 80&apos;s in Edinburgh injecting Drug Users were quickly identified as a high risk group (Edinburgh at the time had a major Drug problem in the poorer areas of the city), Needle exchanges were set up, however Lothian and Borders Police Officers would wait outside to see who went in and if the individual had an outstanding warrant for arrest out on them!!! as you will imagine this stopped people from attending to get clean needles, however eventually police got on board. &nbsp;Public Health has to address all areas such as poverty, poor education , culture before even tackling the immediate problem, Equally we were fortunate in the UK that an unexpectedly conservative government was quite progressive in their response in comparison to other countries such as the USA.

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• SI

  @simonbailey8814 · 1 year ago

  Thanks for this series. I’m one of the lucky ones: HIV+ for 34 years and in reasonable health at age 70. I think about HIV most days but not with the anxiety and fear I experienced during the first 20 years after seroconverting. I often listen to or watch HIV/AIDS docos to remind myself how lucky I am to still be here and to remember those wonderful people I knew who weren’t so lucky.

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• LI

  @Lighthouse6104 · 2 years ago

  This is an excellent series, &nbsp;thank you for making it. I found out so much from this podcast that I didn’t learn from other documentaries.

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• TO

  @tomsmith2013 · 1 year ago

  Just an amazing thing you&apos;ve done here. As a 65 year-old survivor, I have often thought that I have forever heard everything I care to hear about the horror that was that period of my life and the aftermath since. &nbsp;Like the holocaust and other such unspeakable events, over the years I&apos;ve wondered: &nbsp;Why did some survive and others lost? &nbsp;Was there something we should have seen coming on the horizon? &nbsp;Some warning we missed? &nbsp;Why did I survive when there were so many more deserving who perished? &nbsp;I&apos;ve come to understand that these things happen because they must. Because they always will happen. &nbsp;Because they are needed. &nbsp;For without such tragedies there would be no heroes. &nbsp;No advancements. No victories in the face of certain defeat. &nbsp;No blessings that only grief can bring. No growth, just stagnation. Forever separate and alone. &nbsp;I do know there is a God. &nbsp;Perhaps not a Biblical God per say. &nbsp;But a God that is the consciousness of a living universe. A God from which we came and will ultimately return to. &nbsp;A God whose only desire is to give us the power that comes from unconditional love, made possible only by unconditional compassion and forgiveness. &nbsp;Because he (or she) wants us to be the equal companions who understand him we were meant to be. &nbsp;And events such as this, and others … is exactly how he (or she) helps get us there. Those of us we lost to AIDS, were just a few steps ahead of us on that journey. &nbsp;It is in their footsteps we will walk the next time around until there comes the time that we all stand together. What a place that will be!

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• ZE

  @zeddeka · 2 months ago

  It&apos;s good to hear this podcast finally say that what turned out to be AIDS cases were actually being seen in junkies several years before gay men (it should have been said in the very first episode). But it underlines one of the things that this podcast misses. The powers that be in the early 1980s were so consumed by portraying AIDS as a gay male disease, that other groups were often willfully missed. There was a famous incident of a doctor in NYC who had been seeing those symptoms in junkies since 1977, and who in 1981 saw it again in young black children in his hospital. He raised the alarm but was told that it couldn&apos;t possibly be the same disease, as only gay men were getting it. Women were also ignored. Shamefully, it took until 1993 for the US authorities to actually agree on what AIDS looked like in women. Women had been dying of AIDS but were being told that they didn&apos;t have AIDS, because they didn&apos;t have the symptoms which had been determined in men. Women with AIDS for example tend not to get Kaposi&apos;s sarcoma, and instead get things like cervical cancer. Someone once described it all as like the story of the man who lost his keys and was spotted by a passer-by looking for them under a street light. The passer-by asked the man where he last had them, to which the man replied &quot;I last had them three blocks back&quot;. The passer by asked him why he wasn&apos;t looking back there and the man replied &quot;because the light is better here.&quot;

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• AN

  @andrewmckeown8274 · 2 years ago

  An amazing series. Brilliant work done by the podcast team.

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• KF

  @Kfuwiskngko · 2 months ago

  Amazing series!! Script, production and research 10/10. I feel enlighten by it.

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• CH

  @charlinehenderson4966 · 2 years ago

  Wonderful podcast beautifully done

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• PU

  @pup1008 · 2 years ago

  Great little series!

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• LE

  @ledzepgirl92 · 2 years ago

  Switzerland was one of the first countries to implement needle exchange programs, and later opiate substitution therapy. <br><br>AIDS deaths and new HIV transmissions were drastically reduced within just a few years.

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• YA

  @Yael_Jannick · 9 months ago

  Thank you for these incredibly good eight episodes. I learned so much new information, as I wasn&apos;t even born when HIV and AIDS began to spread.

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