BBC – Choose Life: Edinburgh’s Battle Against Aids (2019)
English | Size: 844 MB
Category: Documentary

“It was just normal to be using dirty needles. It was normal to sharpen them on a match box” – Fiona, survivor.

This landmark documentary examines the ten-year period between 1979 and 1989 when Edinburgh faced a frightening new epidemic and was dubbed the ‘Aids capital of Europe’. Meeting the doctors, heroin addicts, police and locals caught up in events they could barely understand, this documentary reveals how events thousands of miles away had a massive impact on Scotland’s capital. [Read more…]