“AIDS is certainly an alarming medical challenge. But the correct way to defeat it is to mobilise the resources of the community to find its cause and develop a cure, not to indulge in useless finger-pointing,” writes Adam Carr in a letter to The Age.
The risk of AIDS transmission through blood products has been minimised in Australia by excluding…
Reserves of blood are critically low — and officials believe it may be because of public fear over AIDS. “The Red Cross Blood Bank would like to reassure the public that there is no risk whatever of contracting AIDS in attending the Blood Bank or giving blood,” said the director of the service.
“There is no doubt that the deliberate creation of public fear and the spread of false information is going on, and that AIDS is being used to attack gay people and gay rights in Australia.”
It has now been shown that an incredible one-in-333 (or a total of 600) gay males in the inner San Francisco area has AIDS and perhaps thousands more of the city’s gay population of perhaps 200,000 could have the disease in its incubation stage.
Campaign Australia, July 1983.
NOTE FROM THE CURATOR: The letter from Fred Nile below is a particularly egregious example…
Courier-Mail, 30 June 1983: A MAJOR announcement about guidelines drawn up to combat Acquired Immune…
The Rev. Fred Nile has released a ‘six-point program’ to counter the spread of AIDS.
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