AIDS: The Lost Voices - Child Fir...
AIDS: The Lost Voices - Child Firsts

AIDS: The Lost Voices por William Hampson

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Will & Gloria once again delve into the British newspaper archives and attempt to unpick the real stories, of real people behind the sensational and attention-grabbing headlines of the 80s and 90s AIDS pandemic.

In a series of child first’s, we hear the emotional accounts from brave parents who sadly lost their child to AIDS.

Irene, a mother who only learned she was HIV positive days before delivering twins discovers she only passed HIV to one of her twins. Doctors said only one of the twins contracting HIV was an “amazingly unusual case” and said to be a ‘first’. We also hear the story of one-year-old Antony Thorpe who was the first child in the UK to die due to AIDS after receiving contaminated blood in America when he was born 14 week premature.

And Eileen and Billy Quirk share how their 10-year-old son Stephen Quirk, was ... 

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