I commend Donahue for shaking the man's hand. It was the first time (1986) that I saw anyone give a AIDS patient physical contact. I used to communicate with someone in the subway of NY who sat near a sign announcing he had the disease. I would place money in his bucket and chat before my train arrived. After a year I actually kissed the man on his cheek to let him know someone cared. People watched me and acted as if I sinned, but it really made his day. It's like the doctor said, it wasn't airborne only through sexual contact. The gentlemen was highly touched by the gesture. Good job, Phil. Always loved your work.
I'm so sorry you lost your brother in such a tragic way, but I'm sure you made his passing easier for him by being at his side. So many people died alone with this awful virus because their friends and family turned their backs on them. You didn't. That speaks to the good person you are. Love is all that matters in the end. ❤
The way Phil stopped the interview with the doctor when he heard Martha crying just behind the door- was very kind of him. He genuinely cared about her and if he made it harder for her.
Awareness of HIV/AIDS was very low in 1986. It was another world back then. I think Phil tried to use this as an educational opportunity for the viewing public. It was so courageous of the people to agree to be interviewed on camera.
Awareness in the US was very high back in 1986. AIDS was the talk of the town in 1986, nonstop, so I disagree with you. Awareness today is significantly lower.
I totally agree ". .. I hurt for these patients and I suspect many have since died. Also I support Mr.Donahue .. and the courage he had for tackling this subject head on.
@@atrocchia We need them again.. Teenage girls are now infected because.. Safe sex isn't taught in High School since the 1990's. The health department should make this mandatory..
Thank God, while Reagan was refusing to utter the word "AIDS" and people dying of a horrific disease were shunned by society, there were decent people with a platform like Phil Donahue highlighting the humanity of the victims. Glad to read he deservedly received the Presidential Medal of Freedom before he passed away. RIP, Phil
He tries to get to the raw emotionality of the issue . Thats why he asks so many prodding questions . It was important for the public to see the whole picture .
@@Frenchman27801the 90's was so scary too. I remember finding out what this disease was when my uncle was diagnosed with HIV. He is still alive but has a lot of health problems
Almost 40 years ago. Watching this brought back the feeling of helplessness. My first b/f died a few weeks before this broadcast. He died of leukemia. At least that’s what I was told. I remember how scared I was going to his funeral. A few years later I met a handsome man who had just moved back to the area after living in Baltimore for a while. He could have been a model, but was quite shy. We went out a few times, then he wanted to talk about something serious. He had AIDS. That’s why he moved back to live with his folks. I still wanted to see him. We dated for several more months, then he broke up with me. He felt considering what I’d been through, it wouldn’t be fair to me. Several months later I went to his funeral. I felt as if I was spinning out of control. I started seeing a therapist. He made me realize none of what happened was my fault. I used to take myself out to dinner after an appointment. Kind of treating myself to something nice. I decided to walk into Tiffany one night, see how the other half lived. Somebody tapped my shoulder. I turned around and in a flash saw the rest of my life. He was tall, darker, brown hair and eyes, and a mustache. He was wearing all beige. He smiled and introduced himself. After some small talked he asked if he could buy me a drink. The following week we went on our first date. He was nervous, we had a good time. That was 34 years ago. We’re still together, got married 10 years ago. He’s always said to me how much I make him smile. It’s been a frightening few years, not much smiling. I was diagnosed with stage3 cancer, then a few years later lung cancer. He’s held my hand through it all. I know I’m very lucky. I still miss all those who died in the 80’s and 90’s I dated or were friends with. But I wouldn’t have my life any other way. I actually have a husband, I think they would be happy for us.
@ATLcentury334 I am a 68 yo gay man. I lost many friends far to soon in the 80's and 90's. You are very blessed, please stay strong! Sending you much love and yes your friends would be extremely happy for you!
The poor mother who has a son with substance abuse issues and hiv and might also have to go through that again with her daughter who suspects she might have hiv too. To loose 2 children that way is devastating 😢!!!! I hope she is strong 💪 enough to get through all of that ❣️
I wish Donahue was back on air . Oprah ran him off but her show became a joke . I miss the frank discussions about nuanced subjects that was the Donahue show .
I hated the fact that when I was a teen my parents attended one of those , " Gays are going to hell." I left the church 20 years ago and I regret nothing , I'm much more of an opened minded person and I'm a newly practicing Witch . Blessed be to those who have passed from the disease or who are living with HIV/AIDS .
I'm surprised Phil wasn't ostracized himself, after this was aired on TV and people saw him touching these people. I mean that's how afraid everyone was back then, they thought you could get it from casual contact even toilets and glasses.
I used to watch Donahue as a kid sick home from school and so fascinated with this disease. I watch these young guys who were handed a death sentence at such young ages in amazement. It must have been so frightening to be diagnosed in 1986 with AIDS. No cure and no real treatment at that time.
It’s wild to think that someone at that very time thought they would live another 5 years with AIDS, it goes to show just how uninformed about and blindsided by the AIDS pandemic, just like how people were blindsided and uninformed about the Corona virus!!! RiP to those who fought!!!❤
Some did though. There is an activist named Peter Staley who was diagnosed in 1985. He made it to 1996 when the life saving drugs became available. There’s a lot of survivors guilt amongst the long term survivors. Many lost entire circles of friends and had difficulty starting over.
Yes so very sad. I watched a documentary about Castro street. Young men in their prime look like 80 year olds. Such a cruel and evil disease. Perhaps one day they will tell us how this virus was released into the population.
An episode of Roseanne where Jackie is lamenting that there aren’t any good men left. Roseanne says “there’s Dan! And…..Donahue”. I’ll never forget it. She was right 🤷🏻♀️
As i watched this on my phone a commercial just came across the tv for apretude a every other month injection of prep hiv prevention medication. My how far we’ve come what a horrible time this was.
And we still have so much more to do. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a start but it's not perfect. To even qualify for PrEP, you have to test negative for HIV infection, which means you can't have the HIV virus itself in your body. You still have to use condoms even when you take PrEP, and you also have to take PrEP every day. The PEP is post-exposure prophylaxis and may or may not be enough to keep you from being HIV-infected.
That veteran likely saw extremely high level of combat and interaction with the enemy. Who can blame him for looking to treat the trauma that was not treated by those who sent him to war. He treated his trauma the best way he could.
The Vietnam War is arguably the biggest travesty and Mass War Crime of the past 60 years, in the entire world. Certainly, the most outrageous thing the U.S. Military Industrial Complex has propagated and unleashed on the world during that timeframe...
My uncle is the last one speaking ! Just hearing him speak after all of these years hearing these wonderful stories about him made me smile with a hint of tears! He’s my grandmothers brother and they were very close .she spoke of him every day . The war was entirely too much for him. I now have a full understanding. Him ,my great grandmother,great grandfather,and my nana are all together now! ❤ keep resting 😊
@@NeshaNesesh98 you know what..you’re probably exactly right. Because who wants to say “I only have 6 months tops to live” even if that is the reality. It was all incredibly sad. I was around back then. I remember going to see a coworker of mine who was dying from AIDS and he couldn’t even speak, though he was trying to, and had blood coming from his mouth.
It is still a practice of Western drs to tell any patient they have just beyond the maximum possible # of yrs. If someone with cancer type A once lived with it for 11 months, they will tell a person they have a yr. Even though the majority die within 1-2 months. It's possible they knew of an AIDs patient who lived 5 yrs and that is what they told him. Hope can heal as well as medications.
Addiction sadly is still not seen by the mainstream as a disease. If we can stop these pharmaceutical companies with all these pills and look for ways to help addicts, we will have a much more productive society. My heart goes out to these people may they Rest in Peace.
Because many of the people here in this interview had got AIDS from drug use, so because of their addiction, specially as addiction usually makes people take risks they normally wouldn't.
AIDS is still a problem in the USA.... but the biggest problem is in Africa. The USA did a lot to try to help African AIDS in the 2000s. We need to get to zero infections.
How ignorant to blame catholicism, instead of African government who don't educate or adequately medically treat their citizens. If access to medication was easily obtainable and then maintained to hiv positive patients, transmission would be negligible. U equals U. Blame the right party and stop projecting your obvious hate for catholicism
Between the Crack Epidemic, the increase of pedophiles, the increase of murders and the rise of the HIV & AIDS Epidemic (which HIV infections in the United States started in the early 1970s) this was the darkside of the 1980s. From what we know now, how tragic it must have been for victims of HIV & AIDS, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, where AZT (a shelved previous cancer medication) was the "wonder drug" to include the horror stories of early HIV & AIDS clinical studies for possible treatment.
I still remember being a kid in the 80’s and seeing a news story on AIDS. The news caster said it was nothing to worry about as it was not a pandemic disease. Boy was he wrong. I also think the movie ‘And the band played on’ should be watched by every kid, teen and young adult. I watched it in the 90’s and it scared the shit out of me and I was always cautious because of how traumatizing that movie was.
So sad to watch this and think of the countless people who died so young, in such slow and gruesome ways, when now we have the medicine that can save them and give them normal lives.
Which definitely puts an HIV/AIDS patient in massive debt even with health insurance. Antiretrovirals definitely need to be made more readily available for all the HIV-infected, not just for the HIV-infected who can afford them.
@@thecajunphoenix Except for the fact that those meds are free to patients. There are even meds given free to people who choose the dangerous practices that prevents them from passing it. AND IT IS FREE. Well. not free, because it is paid for by tax payers. It costs tax payers 166.00 per day. It costs the patients zero. Look up the Medicare/Medicaid formulary and see that all those drugs are right at the top of the list the government pays for.
At first I thought how lovely that the interviewer was shaking hands and having physical contact with the patients to show others who were ignorant of the facts that you couldn't get AIDS from just touching someone. Then he started asking patients what they had 'learned' from the experience of having AIDS. It must have been like a slap in the face for the patients who were imminently facing death. No one wanted to get AIDS and no one deserved it. I'm sure you wouldn't tell a cancer patient 'I told you so' if they had contracted lung cancer through smoking. I'm sure all the patients in this film had already wished things had been different and that they weren't dying. They didn't deserve to be judged on national TV. Very courageous patients. I hope they found peace in the afterlife.
It wasn't a slap in the face. It was a sincer and direct question about what you've learned snice your dx. You're imply that his question was wrapped in some type fo self-blame, no? I was there in 1986 carging for AIDS patients in both NYC and SF. Every one of them and every one of us, learned something about ourselves during this epoch, or things about how to live with the disease the best way possible. And BTW, I have a number of freinds who were diagnosed back in 1985 and they are alive and kicking today close to age 70! Keep learning.
This is not a slap in the face. This is Phil bringing awareness to a disease that in 1986 Reagan and his administration hasn’t even mentioned the word AIDS or took any action. This was before ACTUP was mainstream. The HIV virus was only found and a test procured a year earlier in 1985. He is touching and making contact while many people turned their heads. In 1986 this is only 1 year after they knew what the virus thay causes AIDS was. He was respectful and asked questions that we’re indicative of the early 80s and the response (or non response) of the country. At this time it was looked at as only an “other” disease. Gays, IV drug users, hemophiliacs and Haitians. Before you make comments you should educate yourself on the HIV/AIDS timeline. During this time there was no safety net for Persons with aids. They lost jobs, housing family. For them to come on tv and Phil make the show, it took braveness that we could never understand today.
Yeah, that was no slap in the face! Those AIDS patients were soooo grateful to Phil, for his attention to a subject that was not being covered by the media, in the honest, respectful, loving manner, that this show brought to the subject on this programme!…
@Donnell Okafor I underestand you point, but, cancer is indeed, 100% related to risky behaviours. Many smokers get sick with lung and mouth cancers and die form their illnesses. People often develop cancers related to HPV or human papiloma virus, and some die from it (cervical and recal cancers). Some cancers are spread sexually.
This documentary was made before AZT and the other antiretrovirals were created, so I don't think any of the HIV/AIDS patients in this documentary are still alive. Before AZT and the other antiretrovirals were created, the best an HIV/AIDS patient could hope for was supportive care and palliative care to make his/her/their remaining lifespan as comfortable as possible.
That Female doctor with the presenter looks like Ghislane Maxwell... Anyone notice? Anyway i Feel so sorry for this poor souls, Intelligent people with interesting personalities all of them had. hopefully they are in a better place now, free from troubles of this world. Rest in peace to all the souls who died from this disease from hell 🕊
Doctor Kanayo Peterson's TH-cam channel is forever etched in my memory, I wish to thank you for helping me relieve my hiv and aids symptoms with your herbal medicine for two weeks. Through you, I became hopeful that I could live again
HIV/AIDS is not transmitted through the air. Only bodily fluids. Gloves and eye/mouth covers are needed only when care takers need to be around the patients blood. Like during an injection, treating a cut or wound, dealing with procedures that involve bleeding. But there is no need to be fully covered- head to toe with PPE- while caring for an AIDS patient. It’s not necessary! No need to be overly cautious about contact with them as it’s not easy to catch. Masks would only be used all the time for the patient’s safety-because of immunocompromised patients risk of catching things from a regular healthy person.
Aids wasn't airborne. Of course the way they treated them in the early days of AIDS they dressed up from head to toe and would not even help AIDS patients in their hospital rooms. A lot of them just let the food go cold. If they had the sweats they let them get cold under the sheets because they were so uneducated they didn't want to touch the sheets that the patients were covering themselves with. You don't catch this disease by casual contact. Covid on the other hand it was a different story. And you could catch that virus with casual contact.
@@reagandenny I realize all are relevant to this conversation. That’s why I asked you specifically why you were upset by him “mainly speaking to people who were already suffering from the disease of addiction.” You haven’t answered my question.
I think he said it that way to stop the fear mongering. It was his way of explaining that it didn't just happen. I hadn't considered how many aids patients were still struggling with Vietnam.
@@Denidrakes69 It probably wasn't a coincidence the HIV/AIDS pandemic began five to six years after the end of The Vietnam War, especially since so many Vietnam War veterans had to deal with being scorned and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder by taking drugs and even engaging in unprotected sex.
It’s only about time, the amount of time they can film, how much they film, how many people he can get to interview. He’s no different from when he had his show. Very few people would even give these people the time of day. It’s a blessing to hear from there.
He really was trying to educate people about this disease. He wanted to give it a human face. Unfortunately there were too many bigots who were too stupid to even understand what he was trying to do at the time.
Thank God there is medicine now! But bear w me, I'm no homophobe or heartless person-- I read some books about aids and the gay lifestyle and lots of men were seriously promiscuous! Like they had 1000 partners and had sex 3 x a day. That's hedonism and surely would get you sick somehow. Nobody deserved a deadly disease, and it's terrible, I hope many cried to God in confession and are in a better place. This saddened me, Phil was good show 😊
He’s such a bad interviewer, he just interrupts and rushes people, all to repeat something already said, or ask some asinine question. How did this guy ever have a hit TV show? Why were TV standards so low in the 80s?
Do you have any idea how little was known in 1986? Not much. Do you know many Healthcare professionals wouldn't even bring food into the patients. That people who died from AIDS were let in the hallways in black garbage bags. That funeral homes refused to take people who died from AIDS.
I dont think he was being rude or harsh it's just how they talked back then, very straight to the point and no sugar coating questions. I think the fact that he interviewed them in which alot of people would not says alot about his compassion for AIDS victims back then♥️..
Wtf are you on about? He was equally as rude to everyone. The “woe is me” racial shit is so fucking tiresome. We get it, you are black. Poor whittle thing. Now fuck off
Phil Donahue is very kind and compassionate ...and he is not afraid to shake hands and hug AIDS Patients .god bless him
Phil shook the hands and touched these very ill people at a time when most people knew nothing of this disease.
Thank you, Phil, we miss you on the air.
everybody knew about it by 1986.
@@gaylehudson7267everyone knew about it by then but still people wasn’t too sure how it was officially transmitted.
I commend Donahue for shaking the man's hand. It was the first time (1986) that I saw anyone give a AIDS patient physical contact. I used to communicate with someone in the subway of NY who sat near a sign announcing he had the disease. I would place money in his bucket and chat before my train arrived. After a year I actually kissed the man on his cheek to let him know someone cared. People watched me and acted as if I sinned, but it really made his day. It's like the doctor said, it wasn't airborne only through sexual contact. The gentlemen was highly touched by the gesture.
Good job, Phil. Always loved your work.
A lot of people were in a huge panic when word got out about this epidemic.
Donahue was the gold standard for compassionate journalism. He's the reason I decided to become a journalist and writer.
LOVE this! Truly inspirational! ❤
It was so nice to see Phil touching these sick patients without being afraid. The doctor is amazing too!
you can on contract hiv from blood to blood contact.
I was at my brothers bedside when he died of Aids in 1986. It's 2023 and I'm still here.
Good man and brother
I'm so sorry you lost your brother in such a tragic way, but I'm sure you made his passing easier for him by being at his side. So many people died alone with this awful virus because their friends and family turned their backs on them. You didn't. That speaks to the good person you are. Love is all that matters in the end. ❤
@@soft_serve_666his brother didn’t die in 1986
you should know that we love love you and your brilliant brother
@@carlakenyon6073 Why would you say that? I was there Azzhole.
The way Phil stopped the interview with the doctor when he heard Martha crying just behind the door- was very kind of him. He genuinely cared about her and if he made it harder for her.
Awareness of HIV/AIDS was very low in 1986. It was another world back then. I think Phil tried to use this as an educational opportunity for the viewing public. It was so courageous of the people to agree to be interviewed on camera.
@Donnell Okafor In the U.S., where I reside, prevention messages have just about disappeared.
Awareness in the US was very high back in 1986. AIDS was the talk of the town in 1986, nonstop, so I disagree with you. Awareness today is significantly lower.
@@atrocchia The same thing is happening here in Brazil . It's devastating !
I totally agree ". .. I hurt for these patients and I suspect many have since died. Also I support Mr.Donahue .. and the courage he had for tackling this subject head on.
@@atrocchia We need them again.. Teenage girls are now infected because.. Safe sex isn't taught in High School since the 1990's. The health department should make this mandatory..
Phil is awesome!!! What a kind and compassionate guy! ❤
All these patients are so wise and articulate. I hope they are all R.I.P.
Amazing documentary from the 80's. R.I.P. to those in the video
Thank God, while Reagan was refusing to utter the word "AIDS" and people dying of a horrific disease were shunned by society, there were decent people with a platform like Phil Donahue highlighting the humanity of the victims. Glad to read he deservedly received the Presidential Medal of Freedom before he passed away. RIP, Phil
This is so sad! No one deserves this horrible disease.
Wow your comment should have way more likes 👍❣️
I agree.
Nobody should have to deal with having HIV/AIDS.
He tries to get to the raw emotionality of the issue . Thats why he asks so many prodding questions . It was important for the public to see the whole picture .
This was such a horrible time. I lost so many friends in the 80’s to this dreadful disease.
I am so sorry
@@Frenchman27801the 90's was so scary too. I remember finding out what this disease was when my uncle was diagnosed with HIV. He is still alive but has a lot of health problems
Dr. Debra Spicehandler still practices ID in NY. She has even been featured on podcasts related to the recent pandemic.
Give us link so we can look up her podcast.
Almost 40 years ago. Watching this brought back the feeling of helplessness. My first b/f died a few weeks before this broadcast. He died of leukemia. At least that’s what I was told. I remember how scared I was going to his funeral. A few years later I met a handsome man who had just moved back to the area after living in Baltimore for a while. He could have been a model, but was quite shy. We went out a few times, then he wanted to talk about something serious. He had AIDS. That’s why he moved back to live with his folks. I still wanted to see him. We dated for several more months, then he broke up with me. He felt considering what I’d been through, it wouldn’t be fair to me. Several months later I went to his funeral.
I felt as if I was spinning out of control. I started seeing a therapist. He made me realize none of what happened was my fault. I used to take myself out to dinner after an appointment. Kind of treating myself to something nice. I decided to walk into Tiffany one night, see how the other half lived. Somebody tapped my shoulder. I turned around and in a flash saw the rest of my life. He was tall, darker, brown hair and eyes, and a mustache. He was wearing all beige. He smiled and introduced himself. After some small talked he asked if he could buy me a drink. The following week we went on our first date. He was nervous, we had a good time.
That was 34 years ago. We’re still together, got married 10 years ago. He’s always said to me how much I make him smile. It’s been a frightening few years, not much smiling. I was diagnosed with stage3 cancer, then a few years later lung cancer. He’s held my hand through it all. I know I’m very lucky. I still miss all those who died in the 80’s and 90’s I dated or were friends with. But I wouldn’t have my life any other way. I actually have a husband, I think they would be happy for us.
Thank you for sharing a part of your life. 🙏
@ATLcentury334 I am a 68 yo gay man. I lost many friends far to soon in the 80's and 90's. You are very blessed, please stay strong! Sending you much love and yes your friends would be extremely happy for you!
Few people know or understand what we lived through.
The poor mother who has a son with substance abuse issues and hiv and might also have to go through that again with her daughter who suspects she might have hiv too. To loose 2 children that way is devastating 😢!!!! I hope she is strong 💪 enough to get through all of that ❣️
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Love this @dpurple28!! God Bless your love and acceptance and compassion! ❤
Phil Donahue has such class. You can tell he was touched when that lady was crying.
80s was very scary time for aids patients we came a long way in medicine (watching this in 2024 )
Thank you for posting this Classic, I remember Parts of this Episode as a 8 year old Boy watching it with My Mom. God Bless All These People 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I wish Donahue was back on air . Oprah ran him off but her show became a joke . I miss the frank discussions about nuanced subjects that was the Donahue show .
You’re 100% correct!!!
You must be white
@@juliannenakigudde6855 You must be a bigot
@@pooddescrewch8718 fool
@@juliannenakigudde6855 Bigot
This Barbara was a great Mother. My God.
I hated the fact that when I was a teen my parents attended one of those , " Gays are going to hell." I left the church 20 years ago and I regret nothing , I'm much more of an opened minded person and I'm a newly practicing Witch . Blessed be to those who have passed from the disease or who are living with HIV/AIDS .
So much pain.Very touching documentary
OMG! I remember watching this! Thanks for sharing!
These people has long passed away.
But definately Great documentary.
Unfortunately it took people like Phil Donahue and here in the UK princess Diana to show that we should embrace these people. So sad.
Donahue was a caring man well ahead of his time. If only religious leaders at the time would have showed the same compassion. We miss you, Phil.
I'm surprised Phil wasn't ostracized himself, after this was aired on TV and people saw him touching these people. I mean that's how afraid everyone was back then, they thought you could get it from casual contact even toilets and glasses.
May these brave souls be at rest and with peace.
RIP Phil. You will be missed.
Even though he’s just there to interview , he’s got a heart!! About the only one back then
Phil was a sweetheart. May he rest in peace.
I remember when the “ gay cancer” hit in the 80s. America swept it under the rug until Rock Hudson died. It was a crazy time.
its because of anal sex hun
I used to watch Donahue as a kid sick home from school and so fascinated with this disease.
I watch these young guys who were handed a death sentence at such young ages in amazement.
It must have been so frightening to be diagnosed in 1986 with AIDS. No cure and no real treatment at that time.
STILL VERY HEARTBREAKING, I KNOW OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THIS VIDEO ARE NOW RESTING IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
Not really, if they didnt believe
Amen x
not all of them.
A horrible time when there was little they could do.
It’s wild to think that someone at that very time thought they would live another 5 years with AIDS, it goes to show just how uninformed about and blindsided by the AIDS pandemic, just like how people were blindsided and uninformed about the Corona virus!!! RiP to those who fought!!!❤
Some did though. There is an activist named Peter Staley who was diagnosed in 1985. He made it to 1996 when the life saving drugs became available. There’s a lot of survivors guilt amongst the long term survivors. Many lost entire circles of friends and had difficulty starting over.
Eleven years from the initial infection was usually how long people lived. Now we'd see it as 7ish years with hiv and around three years with aids.
@@Denidrakes69What are you talking about?People diagnosed today live for over twenty years
Amazing work in this piece, RIP to all involved.
That man Nelson who was celebrating is 38th birthday looks like hes 60! This disease just ravages your body 😢
Yes so very sad. I watched a documentary about Castro street. Young men in their prime look like 80 year olds. Such a cruel and evil disease.
Perhaps one day they will tell us how this virus was released into the population.
RIP Phil ❤
An episode of Roseanne where Jackie is lamenting that there aren’t any good men left.
Roseanne says “there’s Dan! And…..Donahue”.
I’ll never forget it.
She was right 🤷🏻♀️
Roseanne was the best!
Lmao 😂 l love ❤️ Rosanne Barr❣️
@@Dpurple28well Rosanne bar went insane herself 😊
The music is f*cking creepy. Lost too many friends
As i watched this on my phone a commercial just came across the tv for apretude a every other month injection of prep hiv prevention medication. My how far we’ve come what a horrible time this was.
Too little too late
@@ehlerhogbetter late than never
And we still have so much more to do.
PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a start but it's not perfect.
To even qualify for PrEP, you have to test negative for HIV infection, which means you can't have the HIV virus itself in your body.
You still have to use condoms even when you take PrEP, and you also have to take PrEP every day.
The PEP is post-exposure prophylaxis and may or may not be enough to keep you from being HIV-infected.
That veteran likely saw extremely high level of combat and interaction with the enemy. Who can blame him for looking to treat the trauma that was not treated by those who sent him to war. He treated his trauma the best way he could.
True.
We definitely did our war veterans a massive disservice in so many ways.
The Vietnam War is arguably the biggest travesty and Mass War Crime of the past 60 years, in the entire world. Certainly, the most outrageous thing the U.S. Military Industrial Complex has propagated and unleashed on the world during that timeframe...
This is humbling and moving and profound
My uncle is the last one speaking ! Just hearing him speak after all of these years hearing these wonderful stories about him made me smile with a hint of tears! He’s my grandmothers brother and they were very close .she spoke of him every day . The war was entirely too much for him. I now have a full understanding. Him ,my great grandmother,great grandfather,and my nana are all together now! ❤ keep resting 😊
I wonder how much longer the black gentleman lived…he definitely didn’t have 5 years and I was stunned when he said it.
I honestly don't think he believed it himself. I think that was his hope. It's heartbreaking.💔
@@NeshaNesesh98 you know what..you’re probably exactly right. Because who wants to say “I only have 6 months tops to live” even if that is the reality. It was all incredibly sad. I was around back then. I remember going to see a coworker of mine who was dying from AIDS and he couldn’t even speak, though he was trying to, and had blood coming from his mouth.
It is still a practice of Western drs to tell any patient they have just beyond the maximum possible # of yrs. If someone with cancer type A once lived with it for 11 months, they will tell a person they have a yr. Even though the majority die within 1-2 months. It's possible they knew of an AIDs patient who lived 5 yrs and that is what they told him. Hope can heal as well as medications.
@@kmsleyang1980omg how terrifying ❣️
What a shame! It must have been a super scary time
I like Phil Donahue's genuine humanity
Addiction sadly is still not seen by the mainstream as a disease. If we can stop these pharmaceutical companies with all these pills and look for ways to help addicts, we will have a much more productive society. My heart goes out to these people may they Rest in Peace.
Unfortunately it’s a double edged sword because someone like me , who has a pain condition that causes chronic pain .
What does addiction have to do with persons Living with AIDS?
@@edbarron because addiction is a way you can get infected with AIDS
@@edbarron see below
Because many of the people here in this interview had got AIDS from drug use, so because of their addiction, specially as addiction usually makes people take risks they normally wouldn't.
This was the epitome of sad……
My bf of 5 yrs died in my arms of AIDS in 1995. I somehow remained hiv neg!!
I am so sorry. I lost my best friend to AIDS. He died in 2017 from complications of ARC.
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Why didn’t he take HIV medications !?!
God loves these people as much as you or I God bless them!
AIDS is still a problem in the USA.... but the biggest problem is in Africa. The USA did a lot to try to help African AIDS in the 2000s. We need to get to zero infections.
You can thank roman-catholic church for that. Teaching that using condoms is bad is psychotic.
How ignorant to blame catholicism, instead of African government who don't educate or adequately medically treat their citizens. If access to medication was easily obtainable and then maintained to hiv positive patients, transmission would be negligible. U equals U. Blame the right party and stop projecting your obvious hate for catholicism
Between the Crack Epidemic, the increase of pedophiles, the increase of murders and the rise of the HIV & AIDS Epidemic (which HIV infections in the United States started in the early 1970s) this was the darkside of the 1980s.
From what we know now, how tragic it must have been for victims of HIV & AIDS, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, where AZT (a shelved previous cancer medication) was the "wonder drug" to include the horror stories of early HIV & AIDS clinical studies for possible treatment.
Heartbreaking! 😢❤
R.I.P Phil Donohue. May God grant you heaven. The Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Job well done.
I wonder How long after this interview they passed away! Hope they were in peace!
I went to school across the street at this time. It was horrifying watching them go in and not come out.
The black guy was very handsome 😢
Beautiful eyes
God bless all these amazing people 💕🌸🧡
War destroys the soul. Blessed angels.
I still remember being a kid in the 80’s and seeing a news story on AIDS. The news caster said it was nothing to worry about as it was not a pandemic disease. Boy was he wrong.
I also think the movie ‘And the band played on’ should be watched by every kid, teen and young adult. I watched it in the 90’s and it scared the shit out of me and I was always cautious because of how traumatizing that movie was.
So sad to watch this and think of the countless people who died so young, in such slow and gruesome ways, when now we have the medicine that can save them and give them normal lives.
7:20 tragic, only 30 years old and a destroyed life.
People did not believe it was bad and continued to be risky. Now it is treatable for a mere 166.00 a day.
Which definitely puts an HIV/AIDS patient in massive debt even with health insurance.
Antiretrovirals definitely need to be made more readily available for all the HIV-infected, not just for the HIV-infected who can afford them.
@@thecajunphoenix Except for the fact that those meds are free to patients. There are even meds given free to people who choose the dangerous practices that prevents them from passing it. AND IT IS FREE. Well. not free, because it is paid for by tax payers. It costs tax payers 166.00 per day. It costs the patients zero. Look up the Medicare/Medicaid formulary and see that all those drugs are right at the top of the list the government pays for.
Thank goodness for the NHS X
The black man is so gorgeous
Hugh Taylor
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Stay away from drugs/and things that would hurt you.
Good doc but the scary music was exploitative and unnecessary
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Right! 😱
Sad...when a person make wrong choices & you can bring your health down.
The music is so sinister, as if this disease needed to be made any more scary.
At first I thought how lovely that the interviewer was shaking hands and having physical contact with the patients to show others who were ignorant of the facts that you couldn't get AIDS from just touching someone. Then he started asking patients what they had 'learned' from the experience of having AIDS. It must have been like a slap in the face for the patients who were imminently facing death. No one wanted to get AIDS and no one deserved it. I'm sure you wouldn't tell a cancer patient 'I told you so' if they had contracted lung cancer through smoking. I'm sure all the patients in this film had already wished things had been different and that they weren't dying. They didn't deserve to be judged on national TV. Very courageous patients. I hope they found peace in the afterlife.
It wasn't a slap in the face. It was a sincer and direct question about what you've learned snice your dx. You're imply that his question was wrapped in some type fo self-blame, no? I was there in 1986 carging for AIDS patients in both NYC and SF. Every one of them and every one of us, learned something about ourselves during this epoch, or things about how to live with the disease the best way possible. And BTW, I have a number of freinds who were diagnosed back in 1985 and they are alive and kicking today close to age 70! Keep learning.
This is not a slap in the face. This is Phil bringing awareness to a disease that in 1986 Reagan and his administration hasn’t even mentioned the word AIDS or took any action. This was before ACTUP was mainstream. The HIV virus was only found and a test procured a year earlier in 1985. He is touching and making contact while many people turned their heads. In 1986 this is only 1 year after they knew what the virus thay causes AIDS was. He was respectful and asked questions that we’re indicative of the early 80s and the response (or non response) of the country. At this time it was looked at as only an “other” disease. Gays, IV drug users, hemophiliacs and Haitians. Before you make comments you should educate yourself on the HIV/AIDS timeline. During this time there was no safety net for Persons with aids. They lost jobs, housing family. For them to come on tv and Phil make the show, it took braveness that we could never understand today.
Yeah, that was no slap in the face! Those AIDS patients were soooo grateful to Phil, for his attention to a subject that was not being covered by the media, in the honest, respectful, loving manner, that this show brought to the subject on this programme!…
@Donnell Okafor I underestand you point, but, cancer is indeed, 100% related to risky behaviours. Many smokers get sick with lung and mouth cancers and die form their illnesses. People often develop cancers related to HPV or human papiloma virus, and some die from it (cervical and recal cancers). Some cancers are spread sexually.
@@anthonydavid5121 cancer not 100% a result of behaviors. Some types of cancer are genetic. Even 2 year olds get cancer. Stop taking out of your ass.
15:57 she is right
Wuz wit the chiller music😳
It was the 80s, calm down. It wasn’t as “chiller” as you think.
It's the musical answer to a jump scare.
Any of them still alive? Does anyone know?
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I don't think so. At that time it was usually an automatic death sentence.
I feel sad for all of them. A group of interesting people!@@xxthatsnotmexx
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This documentary was made before AZT and the other antiretrovirals were created, so I don't think any of the HIV/AIDS patients in this documentary are still alive.
Before AZT and the other antiretrovirals were created, the best an HIV/AIDS patient could hope for was supportive care and palliative care to make his/her/their remaining lifespan as comfortable as possible.
I love the scary music
25:24 thankfully there is such a drug now
I heard it's extremely expensive though
@@leob4403 ohhh hmm
That Female doctor with the presenter looks like Ghislane Maxwell... Anyone notice?
Anyway i Feel so sorry for this poor souls, Intelligent people with interesting personalities all of them had. hopefully they are in a better place now, free from troubles of this world. Rest in peace to all the souls who died from this disease from hell 🕊
Doctor Kanayo Peterson's TH-cam channel is forever etched in my memory,
I wish to thank you for helping me relieve my hiv and aids symptoms with your herbal medicine for two weeks.
Through you, I became hopeful that I could live again
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And not one mask on anyone 😷
Masks did not matter
HIV/AIDS is not transmitted through the air. Only bodily fluids. Gloves and eye/mouth covers are needed only when care takers need to be around the patients blood. Like during an injection, treating a cut or wound, dealing with procedures that involve bleeding.
But there is no need to be fully covered- head to toe with PPE- while caring for an AIDS patient. It’s not necessary!
No need to be overly cautious about contact with them as it’s not easy to catch.
Masks would only be used all the time for the patient’s safety-because of immunocompromised patients risk of catching things from a regular healthy person.
Aids wasn't airborne. Of course the way they treated them in the early days of AIDS they dressed up from head to toe and would not even help AIDS patients in their hospital rooms. A lot of them just let the food go cold. If they had the sweats they let them get cold under the sheets because they were so uneducated they didn't want to touch the sheets that the patients were covering themselves with. You don't catch this disease by casual contact. Covid on the other hand it was a different story. And you could catch that virus with casual contact.
29:21 literally masking up.
it airborne like covid
I'm upset that he chose to speak mainly to people who were already suffering from the disease of addiction.
I’m a recovering addict I’m so grateful I overcame drugs I was really bad on heroine and coke iv thank god I’m clean today I feel so bad for them😢
@@monicalamb4life461 Well if you can't even spell heroin correctly I find it hard to believe that.
Why? At that time people with addiction weren’t really included in the conversation. This episode was important.
@Jessica Moss well of course, all were relevant to this conversation.
@@reagandenny I realize all are relevant to this conversation. That’s why I asked you specifically why you were upset by him “mainly speaking to people who were already suffering from the disease of addiction.” You haven’t answered my question.
He was wrong for saying a bisexual drug user. He worded it any kind of way.
It doesn't mean HIV-infected bisexuals weren't -- or aren't -- also using drugs, especially IV drugs.
I think he said it that way to stop the fear mongering. It was his way of explaining that it didn't just happen.
I hadn't considered how many aids patients were still struggling with Vietnam.
@@Denidrakes69 It probably wasn't a coincidence the HIV/AIDS pandemic began five to six years after the end of The Vietnam War, especially since so many Vietnam War veterans had to deal with being scorned and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder by taking drugs and even engaging in unprotected sex.
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6:05 to 6:25
This could’ve been really eye opening but Donahue is so pushy and awkward. I could barely finish this.
It’s only about time, the amount of time they can film, how much they film, how many people he can get to interview. He’s no different from when he had his show. Very few people would even give these people the time of day. It’s a blessing to hear from there.
He really was trying to educate people about this disease. He wanted to give it a human face. Unfortunately there were too many bigots who were too stupid to even understand what he was trying to do at the time.
Thank God there is medicine now! But bear w me, I'm no homophobe or heartless person-- I read some books about aids and the gay lifestyle and lots of men were seriously promiscuous! Like they had 1000 partners and had sex 3 x a day. That's hedonism and surely would get you sick somehow. Nobody deserved a deadly disease, and it's terrible, I hope many cried to God in confession and are in a better place. This saddened me, Phil was good show 😊
You sound so slightly homophobic/ heartless. Gay men weren’t the only people getting infected. Sex shouldn’t be a death sentence no matter who you are
Homophobic comments
Like straight people weren't risky too.
AIDS didn't start out as a gay disease it goes way back to Africa in the late 50's among African prostitutes .
He’s such a bad interviewer, he just interrupts and rushes people, all to repeat something already said, or ask some asinine question. How did this guy ever have a hit TV show? Why were TV standards so low in the 80s?
He is amazing for bringing attention to marginalized groups like AIDS patients. That’s how he got an award winning show.
Do you have any idea how little was known in 1986? Not much. Do you know many Healthcare professionals wouldn't even bring food into the patients. That people who died from AIDS were let in the hallways in black garbage bags. That funeral homes refused to take people who died from AIDS.
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On the contrary, today’s “standards” are complete trash.
Wtf are you talking about ?
Your Sins will find u out
Princess Diana led the way
Why is he so rude and harsh to the black guy??he wasbt talking like this with his fellow whites🙄pathetic
I dont think he was being rude or harsh it's just how they talked back then, very straight to the point and no sugar coating questions. I think the fact that he interviewed them in which alot of people would not says alot about his compassion for AIDS victims back then♥️..
Wtf are you on about? He was equally as rude to everyone. The “woe is me” racial shit is so fucking tiresome. We get it, you are black. Poor whittle thing. Now fuck off
I think you wrong.
He was rude to them all... mainly focused on the misfortune of the disease of addiction.
I analyzed it indeed feel bad nevertheless back then Aids situations were unacceptable
I feel so bad for him and his family
This was aired on my birthday I was 9yrs old. I remember AIDS and crack was the scariest thing in the black community