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Lyle Taylor, living and dying with AIDS, Sydney 1988
The writer Lyle Taylor was among the first persons openly living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. He was involved in the fight against stigma and discrimination. He gave this interview to Staffan Hildebrand, for the Face of AIDS in March 1988, just ten hours before he died of AIDS. His physician dr. Charles Dwyer from St Vincent Hospital in Sydney, where Taylor was treated, is also interviewed.
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| Described year | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Theme | People Living With HIV/AIDS |
| Key persons | Lyle Taylor |
| Location | Asia Pacific / Australia / Sydney |
| Keywords | active treatment / aids patient / antibody positive / battle / bone marrow / change / changes / chock / community / dead / death / degree / destroyed / die / dignity / disease / doctor / dramatically / effects / emotionally / experience / explosion / fight / full blown aids / functional / game / gay community / good-bye / homosexual / homosexuality / homosexuals / hospital / immune system / infected / infection / john m. dwyer / kaposi sarkom / kaposi sarkoma / laboratory / mental / middleclass / oral thrush / physical / positives / precaution / prepared / realize / relationship / resigned / results / rules / serious / single / spiritual / t cells / testing / tests / tragedy / tumour / unusual / western society |
| Production year | 1988 |
| Producer | Face of Aids Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden |
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