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Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Sophia Strachan (Sophia Forum), Garry Brough (European AIDS Treatment Group), Dr. Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez (Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán), Sita Shahi (International Community of Women Living with HIV Asia Pacific), Dr. Laura Waters (The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), Kene Esom (United Nations Development Programme), Dr. Chinedu Emmanuel (mothers2mothers), Julie Foreman (BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS), Deborah Carpenter (FHI 360), Andrea Domânico (CRT DST/Aids-SP). Plus archive intervews with: Caroline Guinness, Susan Cole-Haley, Ellie Harrison, Angelina Namiba.

The drug trials were run on men. The women were left to work out the rest for themselves. Dan Hall and dan glass mark AIDS 2026's focus on neglected groups, with Dr Tristan Barber of BHIVA opening and closing on the clinical case for research that finally caught up.

Archive testimony comes from Caroline Guinness, co-founder of Positively Women and diagnosed in 1986, on trials that were never designed with women in mind; Susan Cole-Haley on the stranger who wrote to her after seeing her pregnant and positive on a magazine cover; Ellie Harrison, diagnosed at twenty-one, on searching for a woman like her and finding no one; and Angelina Namiba, diagnosed in London in 1993 and given six months to live, on the friend, the peer support, and the job that got her through.

Links

• BHIVA
• HIV i-Base
• AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference
• Sophia Forum, women and HIV
• Sophia Forum, HIV and Women: Invisible No Longer

Thanks Adam Price, Alix Fox, Anonymous, Apostolos James Vogiatzis, Bryn Gay, Careen Hertzog, Emma20Cole, Garry Brough, Moray Laing, Peter Staley, Philippe Cahill, Ross Fletcher, Sarah Schulman, Simon Collins, Siobhán Allison, Soleta Rogan, Tom McKitterick