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Title: Breda Gahan witnessed the worst of Dublin’s 1980s HIV/AIDS Crisis
Post by: Jim Allen on June 05, 2019, 12:54:45 pm

Powerful story of nurse Breda Gahan witnessing the HIV pandemic 1980 - Today.
She talks of the fear, stigma, treatment, deaths both then & now.
 
Full story: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/i-will-never-forget-two-handsome-young-blond-haemophiliac-brothers-dying-from-aids-1.3902245

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It was not easy being young in the late 1980s and seeing young people die from Aids and HIV, which was a new virus in Ireland at the time.

I was a newly qualified nurse and midwife trained in the Mater and Coombe hospitals in Dublin when I took up a position in St James’s Hospital on the oncology, haematology and HIV and Aids unit.