AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
In 1992 Roy Cornes was a 24, a haemophiliac, living with HIV through contaminated blood products and at the centre of a media frenzy. His life was turned upside down by one woman who alleged Roy was “knowingly” and deliberately spreading HIV to women. The media dubbed him a “maniac”, a “monster” and the “AIDS Casanova”. With plans for “hits” on his life & MPs raising urgent questions what happened next?
AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
“DO NOT REVIVE - AIDS” was the suicide note left by grammar school teacher John Hutchinson, foreseeing his recent HIV test result being positive. We also look at two young men who took their own lives merely for ‘suspecting’ or ‘fearing’ they had HIV/AIDS given the stigma of 1988 where we learn they had nothing more than minor, common ailments and not HIV/AIDS.