Events tagged with "AIDSline West Midlands"
AIDS lifeline
Health authority managed service providing a similar service to AIDSline West Midlands, managed by Mark Bestel....
AIDSline West Midlands
The Gay Community was initially the hardest hit by HIV/AIDS and with statutory bodies finding it difficult to engage and cope with the scale of the epidemic it fell to gay men to organise themselves to combat the virus, to educate each other and to s...
HIV the early years
In the early years of the HIV epidemic the medical establishment could provide no solution to the crisis; infection with HIV often led to AIDS which meant a slow and painful death. This period is now commonly referred to as the AIDS crisis and gay co...
Nightingale Thorp Street
A two storey building on Thorp Street at the side of the Hippodrome Theatre, previously the Birmingham Anglers Club. The entrance was simply a door on the street with a small viewing hatch. You walked down a short corridor and entered a spacious indo...
Memories tagged with "AIDSline West Midlands"
AIDS lifeline and AIDSline West Midlands
“I’d moved on from the Gay Centre and was involved at that time with AIDSline West Midlands, in 1988”. He did phone work and buddying, and also started to do some education work. He then got involved in organising the group and then became the Chair ...
AIDS politicised the gay community
“The real politicisation of the gay community started with HIV/AIDS. Until becoming involved with AIDSline West Midlands, Trevor didn’t think that he knew anyone with AIDS. He says, “I got involved through compassion and anger and because it was a po...
AIDSline West Midlands funding
During the time that Trevor was Chair, the group began negotiations for three quarters of a million pounds; AIDSline West Midlands was seen as the main organisation, able to deliver and therefore got the money. They had three paid workers, a training...
AIDSline West Midlands the demise
AIDSline West Midlands closed a year after Body Positive folded in 1996. “They were providing support services and buddying, but they had a big internal squabble as some of the original founders thought the telephone line they operated was the most i...
Body Positive
“Body Positive came out of AIDSline West Midlands, when they moved from Hurst Street to Smithfield House in Digbeth, Body Positive took over the room they had used at the Nightingale in 1987, on Thorp Street. I had attended occasionally before I move...
HIV Services in Birmingham
"When I came in 1989 in HIV terms there was AIDSline West Midlands and also AIDS lifeline which was run out of Lancaster Street, a central Birmingham Health Authority initiative run by a guy called Rod Griffiths. AIDSline had been going for quite a l...
Super Pricks 88
The following article from 'In the Pink' July 1998 talks about the planned Super Pricks '88 event.HOT AND HEALTHYSUPER PRICKS 88At The Powerhouse on Thursday 25th August, just before the Birmingham Super Prix, the Gay Men's Health Group has arranged ...