Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Alan Burgess
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12/15/22 • 18 min
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This podcast represents just one example of many stories from the full form Audiobook "Love, Loss & Life" published by the National HIV Story Trust.
Alan Burgess was diagnosed as a child in 1967 with a moderate form of haemophilia. A painter and decorator by trade, he was married with children in the 1980s when he was given NHS contaminated blood products and became infected with HIV, eventually losing his business and much else besides. He joined the Birchgrove Support Group, a campaigning group set up by haemophiliacs with HIV, and has given evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry which got underway in 2018.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
Your feedback means a great deal to us. Please text us your thoughts by clicking on this link.
This podcast represents just one example of many stories from the full form Audiobook "Love, Loss & Life" published by the National HIV Story Trust.
Alan Burgess was diagnosed as a child in 1967 with a moderate form of haemophilia. A painter and decorator by trade, he was married with children in the 1980s when he was given NHS contaminated blood products and became infected with HIV, eventually losing his business and much else besides. He joined the Birchgrove Support Group, a campaigning group set up by haemophiliacs with HIV, and has given evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry which got underway in 2018.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
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Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Adrienne Seed
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This podcast represents just one example of many stories from the full form Audiobook "Love, Loss & Life" published by the National HIV Story Trust.
Although her partner died of AIDS-related illness in 1998, Adrienne was not diagnosed herself until four years later, by which time she had a viral load of over 2 million. She found being a woman with HIV a lonely experience at first, and hid her status from her son for many years.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
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Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Jane Bruton
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Jane Bruton began her nursing career in Leicester and first encountered HIV
patients when she became Ward Sister in the infectious diseases unit there.
After a short spell as a health advisor in the Sexual Health Clinic at the
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, in 1989 she became Sister on Broderip
Ward, the dedicated HIV ward at the Middlesex Hospital. Jane returned to
the Chelsea and Westminster in 1999 for a further 14 years in various Senior
Nurse roles in HIV. She has also worked with HIV patients in rural Uganda, and she is now the Clinical Research Manager in the Patient Experience Research Centre at Imperial College, London.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
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