A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to...

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 think about people who have lived with HIV for a long time, we often think a ...  Show more

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 first cases of HIV in the UK, we h ...  Show more

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 of a positive HIV ...  Show more

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 became available. When Angelina Namiba was ...  Show more

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 devastation and stigma of HIV in the 1980s, another c ...  Show more