Foley, Bill and Nugent, Erin and Donnellan, Noel and Strong, Thomas and O'Brien, Cormac and Price, Graham (2023) How to be Irish in an epidemic: a dossier article on HIV and AIDS in Ireland, then and now. The Journal of Medical Humanities, 44, pp. 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-022-09768-9.
External website: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-0...
This dossier article contains four short and varied contributions from activists and other service and healthcare providers who have been agitating and working on the frontlines of HIV/AIDS in Ireland since the early 1980s. The dossier contains: (1) a history, by Bill Foley, of the early collective efforts of a group of gay men to provoke government action and healthcare under the umbrella of Gay Health Action (GHA) (2) a speech delivered by Dr. Erin Nugent to government officials on the re-branding of HIV Ireland in 2015; (3) a brief history, recounted by Noel Donnellan, of ACT UP Dublin since it was revitalized in 2016 by a small cohort of dedicated activists from a dormant group into a vibrant collective that has achieved great legislative change with regards to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP); and (4) a polemic, written by Thomas Strong, on living with HIV as a queer man in Ireland that demonstrates the ways in which HIV stigma not only thrives in but molds and shapes twenty-first-century gay men's communities, both in real life and online.
F Concepts in psychology > Attitude > Attitude toward substance use > Attitude toward person who uses substances (user)
G Health and disease > Disease by cause (Aetiology) > Communicable / infectious disease > HIV
G Health and disease > Disease by cause (Aetiology) > Communicable / infectious disease > Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and rehabilitation > Prevention approach > Prevention through information and education
MA-ML Social science, culture and community > Sociocultural discrimination > Prejudice (stigma / discrimination)
T Demographic characteristics > Homosexual, gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender, LGBTQI
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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