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We Were Always Here:
2021 marks 40 years since the first cases of HIV or as it was known then 'Gay-Related Immune Deficiency', were identified. It would go on to become one of the most impactful and stigmatised global pandemics in history. This series brings together the unheard voices and the untold stories of those who were most affected but are often missing from the mainstream narratives. The experiences of women, Black People, Trans Community, Sex workers. Clinicians on the front line, People of Colour, volunteers who built helplines from their bedrooms, that rallied together so that no one had to be alone. These are stories of loss, activism, rage, resilience, and - most importantly - community.
The series is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown and hosted by Marc Thompson who has lived with HIV since 1986. He has been on the frontlines of social justice activism and education and is one of Britain’s most prominent HIV activists.
Previous series:
Living On A Prayer: We've all seen the headlines... In the 1990s, criminal cases and Irish government enquiries established countless acts of abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church. With public outrage leading to rapid social change, how much power does the Catholic Church still hold over modern day Ireland? In this one off-documentary, Rory Boyle examines the shift in public opinion that led to landslide victories in recent marriage equality and abortion referendums, ultimately asking if the Irish Catholic Church still has a prayer...
In Touch: In this documentary series, sex educator Ruby Rare draws on her own personal and professional experience to offer an intimate and playful education around the different ways we connect to our bodies and to each other. Ruby speaks to experts, porn creators and even her parents to explore and understand the very unique ways that we each approach sex and sexuality.
The Stitch Up: Fashion. It’s big business. But it’s also got big problems. In this one off documentary, Bea Duncan examines how we got here. What are the pressures causing us to overconsume, and how can we begin to curb them? How is lack of transparency causing confusion for consumers? And what can we do about a fashion industry that prioritizes profits over people and planet, all the while utilising clever marketing tactics and greenwashing to convince us otherwise. Well, as it turns out, all it takes is for us to pull on the thread a little harder...for the whole thing to unravel.
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- Margate, England
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- 2021-09-21
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Submit ReviewOn the 27th October 2023, the team behind We Were Always Here held a live event at the Bishopsgate Institute in London. We had collected hundreds of hours of interviews from over 50 people during the making of the podcast and decided to donate all of the audio and transcipts to the Queer Archives at the Bishopsgate Institute so that these stories would no longer be left out of the telling of the UK HIV Epidemic history. This evening was in celebration of that donation but also to ensure the conversation around HIV is ongoing.
This event featured Marc Thompson, Sophie Strachen and Angelina Namiba and was chaired by the podcast's producer, Hana Walker-Brown.
Bishopsgate: https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk
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As we move into the 2000's, the demographic of HIV is changing as are the policies surrounding treatment. At an International medical trail, PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is found to be highly effective for treating people with HIV, reducing the risk of infection from sex by about 99% when taken as prescribed. It was a breakthrough and it was assumed by many that PrEP would be rolled out by the NHS. But it wasn't going to be that simple. The thread of activism that runs through the last decade is reminiscent of the early 80's and 90's and a reminder that the fight to end HIV still very much includes the fight to end stigma.
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
The Sophia Forum
The Sophia Forum promotes and advocates for the rights, health, welfare and dignity of women living with HIV through research, raising awareness and influencing policy.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehens
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
During the 1990's the prevelance of HIV increased across the mainstream media in part due to celebrities taking to the world stage to disclose their diagnosis. First it was Magic Johnson, a week later singer Freddy Mercury would announce he had aids. He died the next day. Then there would be tennis star Arthur Ashe who had contracted the virus during a blood transfusion in 1982. Up to 5000 peope were thought to have been infected with HIV via contaminated blood transfusion in the 1980's. This episode looks at the role the media and the government played in stigma and those who fought to dispel it.
This Episode is dedicated to memory of Jonny Cooper.
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
A transcript of this episode is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tA-aKpvUwoTVtGqubaHVwiQRQrHMvFlGD-9-PSbrk1Q/edit
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
The Sophia Forum
The Sophia Forum promotes and advocates for the rights, health, welfare and dignity of women living with HIV through research, raising awareness and influencing policy.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehens
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Positively Women was created by HIV positive women for HIV positive women. Two of the founders discuss the groups inception, the services they offered, and Princess Diana's chic suit. But some women still fell through the cracks.
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
The Sophia Forum
The Sophia Forum promotes and advocates for the rights, health, welfare and dignity of women living with HIV through research, raising awareness and influencing policy.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Since the start of epidemic, women in many regions have been disproportionately affected by HIV. Today, women make up more than half of all people living with HIV and AIDS-related illnesses. In 1986 the ratio of male to female of HIV cases in the UK was 33 to one. By 1989, it was estimated that women accounted for a third of HIV cases worldwide, with several thousand diagnosed in the UK. In the first of this two part episode, women share their recollections of diagnosis.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Leigh Neal
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
A transcript for this episode is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_oxBhv4iJlXFxKEIgJ6-dCAa1wXDMMLGYSMOf8tMu6w/edit?usp=sharing
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
The Sophia Forum
The Sophia Forum promotes and advocates for the rights, health, welfare and dignity of women living with HIV through research, raising awareness and influencing policy.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Between the first case of HIV in 1981 and 1987, AIDS was unstoppable. The glimmer of hope came in 1987 when the drug, AZT, an antiretroviral medication was fastracked under enormous public pressure. What followed was a controversial trial. At the same time more and more cases of HIV were being reported, from both the African Continent and in Women.
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
A transcript for this episode is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-eZ2iIaiFyqL6gXvqJ_2xIEi1YZBvRcg36dopFcxGto/edit?usp=sharing
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1987, 71,751 cases of AIDS had been reported to the world health organisation. They estimated that 5-10 million people were living with HIV worldwide. The epidemic didn’t just affect individuals, it impacted households, and communities. Against the backdrop of a conversative government with Section 28 just around the corner, there was a tradition of volunteering and community involvement and a very ‘English’ approach to fighting the system. People looked out for people. And that was true of the response to the AIDS epidemic.You just had to find yours. This was the start of the response.
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fear is a tool that is often used in interventions around healthcare. Public information films featuring images of car crashes and injured children have been used to encourage us not to drink alcohol and drive and in more recent years - images of human organs on cigarette packets to encourage us not to smoke. The HIV epidemic was no different and perhaps the most hard hitting of all. Following his positive diagnosis in 1986 at seventeen years old, Marc Thompson suddenly becomes aware of the prevelance of AIDS across the UK and Global Media and one campaign in particular that would go on to define the era.
A transcript for this episode is available here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11ZzBqS5ojufS4EOGTFrKTTFlt81BPJ49
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Following the discovery of LAV and HTVL-III , the identical viruses believed to cause AIDS, a blood test is developed in 1985 to screen for the disease. Marc Thompson, then a teenager, is pursuaded by friends to take it. The dialogue around AIDS is increasing, though there is still so much unknown. Rock Hudson, a prolific Hollywood actor has died at this point, but there is still nothing that really connects the Black, gay community in South East London to this disease. They felt safe in their world, but that world was about to change forever.
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
A transcript for this episode is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11ZzBqS5ojufS4EOGTFrKTTFlt81BPJ49
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
During the 1980's, Marc Thompson found his feet and his people as a young Black gay man in Brixton, South East London, enjoying everything that life and his community had to offer; family, parties and a safe space to express himself. At the same time, reports of a strange cancer that had been affecting young white gay men begun to emerge from America. It was like a mist, slowly creeping into the consciousness of Marc and his friends. But it was over there and these were white men, so there wasn't anything to worry about it, was there?
We Were Always Here is produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown
This is a Broccoli Production.
A transcript for this episode is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11ZzBqS5ojufS4EOGTFrKTTFlt81BPJ49
If you have been affected by the themes in this episode a list of resources and helplines can be found below:
The Love Tank
The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest community (CIC) that promotes health and wellbeing of under served communities through education, capacity building + research.
Body and Soul Charity
Tel: 020 7923 6880
Body & Soul is a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Helpline: 0808 802 1221
Offers free and confidential services for people with HIV and AIDS, including specialist advice and representation on welfare rights, housing and legal matters, practical help and befriending. See website for local centres.
Positively UK
Tel: 020 7713 0444
We are here to help all individuals living with HIV in the UK to live well. From diagnosis and starting treatment to talking about your HIV with others, your relationships, and employment options, Positively UK will support you to manage all aspects of your HIV and help you to achieve the best for your physical and emotional well-being. Our front-line staff and volunteers are themselves living with HIV and have first-hand experience of the issues you may face.
The National AIDS Trust
NAT is the UK's leading charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. We provide fresh thinking, expert advice and practical resources. We campaign for change.
CHIVA (Children’s HIV Association)
CHIVA work with professionals to provide the best possible care and services for children, young people and families living with HIV, as well as working with parents to provide information to support them in the issues HIV presents within the family. They also work with young people living with HIV through a youth committee and consultations to ensure they are provided with the information they need and that their voices are heard throughout their work and in the wider community.
NAM Aidsmap
Information, news and resources for people with HIV and AIDS, comprehensive information on treatments and a database of HIV clinics in the UK.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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