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Her. feelings of being rejected or abandoned were always there. >> there is now a danger that has become a threat to us all. it is a deadly disease and there is no known cure. >> in the mid 1980s, there was a huge amount of ignorance with aids. it was bound up with a huge amount of homophobia. gay men were represented as being diseased. >> the middle sex hospital is the only specially designed aids ward. this shows you just how fearless and radical she really was. >> the male nurse on the ward is himself hiv infected, spoke out to her about the minutes

Said, she knows what it's like to be uncared for, undervalued. >> the princess of wales felt not the slight bit of an hence visiting the aids ward. >> people talked about it almost in terms of rep row si. >> diana made a point of wearing no gloves, showing the world that she had no fear. >> hiv does not make people dangerous to know. so you can shake their hand and give them a hug. heaven knows, they need it. >> she felt uncomfortable about it. >> i remember one particularly day when diana went to see the queen, well done. what are you going to do that for? why don't you do something nice? >> ...

Will be unveiled in greenwich village. this is across the street from the old st. vincent's hospital which was home to the city's first and largest aids ward. the memorial will be dedicated to the roughly 100,000 noeew yorkers who died of aids. also this morning new hope in a long struggle against the deadly virus. wednesday researchers started testing a vaccine in south africa. it's estimated more than 1,000 people every day in that country become infected with hiv. this is the first study of its kind in a decade, it will continue over the next four years. since hiv/aids was first diagnosed i...