Events tagged with "Mark Bestel"
AIDS lifeline
Health authority managed service providing a similar service to AIDSline West Midlands, managed by Mark Bestel....
Memories tagged with "Mark Bestel"
AIDS cash crisis
This article from the 'Lesbian and Gay News West Midlands', February 1992, highlights the lack of funding for health promotion targeted specifically at gay men, who bore the brunt of the epidemic during the AIDS crisis.AIDS CASH CRISISGay rights camp...
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 ...
Misleading AIDS leaflets
The following article from 'In The Pink', April 1989 highlights the anti-gay prejudice and misinformation around HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s, even from statutory bodies such as Birmingham City Council.WARNING : These leaflets may damage your healthTwo...
New HIV unit at East Birmingham
This article from the AIDS lifeline newsletter, November 1992, reports on the opening of the new HIV unit at the then East Birmingham Hospital, now Heartlands.East Birmingham Hospital's new unit at the Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine wa...
Simon Brook Obituary
The following obituary appeared in AIDS lifeline Bulletin, November 1992. Simon was only 23 when he died of an AIDS related illness, highlighting the devastating impact the disease was having on the gay community.On Tuesday 27th October staff at the ...