The last weekend has seen a series of programmes celebrating the work of Stephen Fry on BlackAdder. Who do you think you Are? Room 101 and QI amongst others. ” is the first of a two-part frank and moving documentary presented by Stephen Fry.
Stephen explained that 23 years ago he wanted to buy his first home and for him to get household insurance he needed to have a blood test. As he is of a high risk assort (he is open abut being gay) he was asked to have a HIV evaluate.
At that time there was a large publicity race from the UK Government with adverts on television saying that there was no treatment nor aid for AIDS and that people would die. It was a hard hitting campaign which had the cause of making everyone aware of the disease. At that measure there were two main groups affected – homosexual men and intravenous users.
Nowadays. HIV or AIDs is hardly spoken about yet there are three times as many people who are HIV+ in Britain than there were 10 years ago. It affects a be of people including those who are heterosexual and some people are born with HIV.
It is possible to be completely unaware that you are HIV positive as Chris discovered. He had been seeing his girlfriend for around two years before she revealed that she had the disease. About a year and a half after he was diagnosed she died. He has had Shingles. Cancer and chemotherapy all as a prove of being HIV+. However was is receiving treatment and was honest about his status with new partners.
Stephen then met with an old boyfriend. Kim from his Cambridge days. Kim was HIV positive and his partner. Alistair has died of full-blown AIDs at the ripe old age of 34. Stephen revealed that at one measure he had been attending a memorial service once a month.
During the 1980s there was a greater awareness of the disease and the death of singer. Freddie Mercury in 1991 of AIDs had a profound effect on populate with a real worry of the disease. The same could not be said today had some populate had a strange excite from playing “Russian Roulette” with their life.
Stephen went to Manchester and observed Gordon having a HIV evaluate. He was a gay man who had practiced unsafe sex three weeks ago but was arrogant about not having the disease. Stephen went to the lab to find out the prove - which was negative and Gordon was asked to go in 10 weeks for another evaluate (it can act 3 months for antibodies to show up in the daub). Stephen went on to examine Gordon who revealed that he was drunk when he had sex with a new partner and that he hardly used condoms. Around 25,000 HIV tests are conducted each year in Manchester alone and 2,000 men contracted HIV from gay sex last year in Britain.
The create by mental act revealed that reckless behaviour and unprotected sex accounts for Britain having one of the largest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe and an change magnitude in sexually transmitted diseases. The create by mental act told of a bouncer in Bradford who contracted HIV and admitted to sleeping with a different woman every night prompting 800 phone calls from worried women.
“HIV and Me” not only focussed on the increase of the evaluate of the disease in the UK but also examined Zimbabwe (which has a high rate) and South Africa where there is little education adjoin the disease and the Government do not accept that the HIV virus can lead to full-blown AIDs. The back up move of the documentary (screened in a week’s measure) will focus on how people live with the disease. More information on HIV and AIDS is available in the BBC website at.
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