Image: Eve of World Aids Day 2018, Kolkata, India. Credit: Tumpa Mondal/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved.
Just occasionally, the UK public gets reminded that AIDS isn’t over and done with. Yesterday’s brave announcement of his HIV status by Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle was one such moment.
But generally, many people I speak to in the UK think it was a thing of the 1980s and 1990s. That it was about tombstones and doom-gloom deaths of young gay men, Africans, drug users and people living with Haemophilia (the UK Infected Blood Inquiry is currently in process but rarely hits the headlines). And that now it’s over.
