A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today

By BBC Radio Wales

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What's A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today about?

Sam Smith presents stories of HIV in the UK over the last 40 years; beginning with the life of Terrence Higgins, one of the first British people to die of an AIDS-related illness.

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A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today episodes:

08.19.2022
8. Born this Way
In the final episode of A Positive Life, Sam Smith explores the experiences of young people in the UK who were born with HIV, and looks at what's next in the ongoing fight to end the HIV epidemic. When we...
08.12.2022
7. Some Things Stay The Same
Sam Smith explores HIV stigma and misinformation in the Noughties, and how people from marginalised communities are still being left behind today, even as huge strides are made against the virus. In the early 2010s, nearly three decades after the...
08.05.2022
6. Baby Love
Sam Smith explores the ways HIV affects women and child-bearing parents, and the ongoing fight to end gender inequality and stigma within the fight for greater AIDS awareness. By the late 1990s, new, effective treatments had dramatically changed the implications...
07.29.2022
5. Breakthrough
Sam Smith explores how the 1990s brought new, effective treatments for HIV that changed people's lives forever - and hears how peer support networks were a lifeline for women living with HIV in the era before these life saving treatments...
07.22.2022
4. Infected Blood
Sam Smith explores how more than a thousand haemophiliacs in the UK acquired HIV through their treatment - in what's come to be known as the contaminated blood scandal. At the same time that the queer community was fighting the...
07.15.2022
3. An Epidemic Begins
Sam Smith explores how AIDS became headline news in the 1980s, and how communities came together to raise public awareness - and fight a growing tide of fear and stigma. Terry Higgins' death in 1982 was one of the first...
07.08.2022
2. See You On The Dance Floor
Sam Smith explores Terry Higgins' life in 1970s and 80s London. His closest friends remember his unforgettable character, and a community on the edge of the AIDS crisis. Like many queer people of his generation, Terry Higgins moved from his...
07.01.2022
1. A Boy From Wales
Terrence Higgins was one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness. But Terry also lived. Sam Smith explores his early life as a young gay man in Wales. In "A Positive Life", singer Sam...
06.24.2022
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Sam Smith presents stories of HIV in the UK over the last 40 years; beginning with the life of Terrence Higgins, one of the first British people to die of an AIDS-related illness.

What's A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today episodes:

8. Born this Way

7. Some Things Stay The Same

6. Baby Love

5. Breakthrough

4. Infected Blood

3. An Epidemic Begins

2. See You On The Dance Floor

1. A Boy From Wales

A Positive Life… coming soon