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Restaurant Reviews. So I would say I got involved in this work largely through guilt initially. I wanted to support people, and help change things.
With each person he came into contact with, his understanding of the condition broadened, helping him alleviate any fears he had of the condition. And it was women as well — I got to know a lot of straight men and women affected by the virus too. So that for me was the saddest thing — that these people have been essentially rubbed out.
I mean, I suddenly felt that I was part of this almost massive leper colony.
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Someone once equated HIV back then, and now to an extent too, to feeling like no-one cared. It absolutely felt like nobody cared. This is a job he combines with a role at Drugs Action in Aberdeen. Education plays a big part of his roles, both in educating the communities at most risk of contracting HIV, and also of everyone else.
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Despite medical treatments for the virus taking mammoth steps in the thirty years since the first British person was diagnosed, the need for people like Colin to educate the wider population about the condition has remained the same. For example, he is currently helping preparing to deliver a presentation at the Quality in Care Development Day which will focus on the treatment of elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.