HIV survivor and advocate helped achieve medical breakthroughs

HIV survivor and advocate helped achieve medical breakthroughs

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

The activist was one of few diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s who lived to see advances in treating the virus and overcoming ignorance and discrimination.

His first response was that, despite the odds, he would not die. He formulated his own plan.
When he celebrated his 70th birthday last year, David Polson was one of only 28 of the first 400 men diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Australia in 1984. It appeare… [1668 chars]

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