Search results for ‘HIV’
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Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household
Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
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Contaminated blood scandal: Will Post Office publicity speed up justice?
The inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been hearing from more employees of Fujitsu after the tech giant’s bosses apologised yesterday for its role in the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters. Also today, the victims of another scandal were told the final report of the public inquiry into what happened to…
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Blood scandal families call on Government to pay compensation now
Victims and families caught up in the infected blood scandal have told this programme they have little faith in the Government to bring forward compensation.
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A year living under the shadow of war in one Ukrainian community
As the war in Ukraine enters its 20th month, there’s no end in sight, just brutally slow advances, where soldiers fight for weeks over metres of territory on the frontlines.
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FactCheck: will ULEZ expansion to outer London improve air quality?
We calculate the expansion will add 13 minutes to the average Londoner’s life expectancy in 2023.
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Gun control activists tour the USA to honour the 1,206 children killed by guns this year
A staggering 1,206 children aged 17 and under have been killed by a gun so far this year in the United States. That’s according to the Gun Violence Archive, which says there have also been 480 mass shootings.
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Prime Minister jeered while giving evidence during infected blood inquiry
Victims of the infected blood scandal jeered as the prime minister told them they will get compensation ‘as swiftly as possible’.
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‘There was so much Black history that I didn’t know about’, says singer Corinne Bailey Rae
It’s over 17 years since singer Corinne Bailey Rae shot to prominence with her number one debut album.
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‘Without them, I’m not sure who we’d be,’ Windrush descendants remember the generation’s legacy
So what is the legacy of the Windrush generation? I’m joined now by Jak Beula, a social archivist behind efforts to mark Afro-Caribbean achievements in Britain, Lynette Richards-Lorde, a retired nurse and midwife, and literary commentator Sharmaine Lovegrove.
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FactCheck: did an AI drone ‘kill’ its imaginary human operator?
Did an AI drone ‘kill’ its imaginary human operator? FactCheck takes a look.
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Coronation: What do people in Nottingham feel about the monarchy?
Now final preparations are underway for the King’s coronation this weekend and London is already a hive of activity. But beyond the capital, how do people feel about the coronation – the attention, the expense and the future of the monarchy?
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FactCheck: is Clinton right that there have been 135 mass shootings in the US in 2023?
The figures aren’t clear cut.
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FactCheck: symptoms of the new Covid variant surging in the US and why it is spreading so fast
Here’s what we know so far.
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How the Republicans became a Trump fan club
We speak to strategist Whit Ayres about the shifting nature of the Republican party.
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FactCheck: Hunt claims corporation tax cut would raise money
Economics experts say otherwise.