Loss, shame and love: How the AIDS epidemic affected Liverpool
Loss, shame and love: How the AIDS epidemic affected Liverpool From attending funerals every week to creating a model to fight back against the disease, this is the story of the AIDS epidemic in Liverpool Updated It was described as a “death sentence”. Again and again, those who spoke to the Liverpool ECHO described the disease, which had taken friends and loved ones, as a “death sentence.” Once people caught it, it not only meant death but also being treated as an outcast by society. The AIDS epidemic in the 1980s stole a generation of mostly young men from the country, and from Live...