About this event
To mark World AIDS day 2019, you are invited to this BSMS event about healthcare from the early days of HIV/AIDS in the US and UK up to today.
The event is open to staff and students from BSMS, University of Sussex, University of Brighton and local NHS Trusts and will start with a showing of Quiet Heroes, a moving film about HIV/AIDS treatment in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This will be followed by two presentations:
Nicky Perry, Clinical Trials Unit Operational Manager and Honorary Senior Lecturer, with the oral histories of healthcare workers who were involved in the care and management of people with HIV/AIDS during the 1980s and 1990s.
Dr Jaime Vera, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in HIV Medicine on HIV care today.
This event will cover what it means to be a good doctor and how to provide care as doctors or other healthcare professionals as well the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS in the early days, how treatment and care evolved over the course of the 80s and 90s to today and how it led to a mobilisation of the LGBT community.
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