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VOICEOVER: As the new decade
approached, scientists were still
no closer to finding a cure. People with Aids had a life
expectancy of less than two years. LEIGH: We were very open about
people dying. People were going, "Do you think
I'm going to die?" And it got to a point of saying,
"I think that's likely. "What do we need to do?" There was no good pretending. I think most of the people
who came to the wards were never going to leave it. You know, again, I was 22. I found it hard
approached, scientists were still
no closer to finding a cure. People with Aids had a life
expectancy of less than two years. LEIGH: We were very open about
people dying. People were going, "Do you think
I'm going to die?" And it got to a point of saying,
"I think that's likely. "What do we need to do?" There was no good pretending. I think most of the people
who came to the wards were never going to leave it. You know, again, I was 22. I found it hard
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VOICEOVER: As the new decade
approached,
00:00:02.088 --> 00:00:05.068
scientists were still
no closer to finding a cure.
00:00:05.068 --> 00:00:10.036
People with Aids had a life
expectancy of less than two years.
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LEIGH: We were very open about
people dying.
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People were going, "Do you think
I'm going to die?"
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And it got to a point of saying,
"I think that's likely.
00:00:18.076 --> 00:00:20.004
"What do we need to do?"
00:00:21.076 --> 00:00:23.032
There was no good pretending.
00:00:23.032 --> 00:00:26.096
I think most of the people
who came to the wards
00:00:26.096 --> 00:00:28.044
were never going to leave it.
00:00:30.008 --> 00:00:32.092
You know, again, I was 22.
00:00:32.092 --> 00:00:34.028
I found it hard.
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Movie Summary
Real stories, real voices. The Aids crisis as never told before, by those who survived - and those who did not. Frank, intimate accounts from the heart of a devastating epidemic.
