In the early 1980s, AIDS was like a whirlwind... it was a death sentence, nothing short of it. The disease inspired complete terror like the bubonic plague.
 Twenty-five years on, people are confident AIDS has been replaced by HIV
Twenty-five years on, people are confident AIDS has been replaced by HIV - a chronic condition like diabetes. You can even survive on one pill a day, I’m told. I’d love to find out if this has caused complacency - whether it’s that simple and AIDS no longer really exists and HIV doesn’t matter anymore? It seems that today you can live a normal life and have safe sex, with all the terror and hysteria of the early years having been replaced by an easygoing lifestyle once more. What’s happened to this extraordinary disease that captured the public imagination? Is it really something you can now live with, or is there still a stigma that makes it a social disease of intense privation? There’s so much to discover. For example, which are today’s high-risk groups? Although I’ve worked with AIDS charities, I haven’t really connected with the people who know about it either first-hand because they live with it, or through working, as it were, at the coal-face of the disease.
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