Michael Kirby interviewed by Daniel Connell for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project

Justice Michael Kirby, former member of the Global Commission on AIDS and the AIDS Trust of Australia, speaks of his involvement in AIDS issues; WHO Global Commission on AIDS; social versus medical control of the disease; African AIDS problem; effect of AIDS on societal attitudes; AIDS & drug use; political response to epidemic; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; comparison of HIV & other sexually transmitted diseases; AIDS & Soviet Union; blood donation; government responsibilities; HIV & prisons; gay participation in AIDS debate; future AIDS strategies; possibility of a cure; women & AIDS. 

 

Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS. Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on 3 August 1993.