David Cooper interviewed by Stewart Harris for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2170404
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cooper, David A. (David Albert), 1949-2018, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Sept. 22-Oct. 20
- 3 tape reels (ca. 101 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Professor David Cooper, Director HIV Medicine Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, reflects on his experiences in AIDS research, including his medical background & interest in immunology; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; AIDS & Aborigines; health worker risk; early HIV antibody tests; gay cohort study; confidentiality; testing issue; AZT treatment; Albion Street Centre; AIDS research funding; blood supply; HIV epidemiology, NSW; needle exchange; prospects for HIV vaccine; AIDS & Africa; drug economics; Blewett; AIDS bureaucracy; NACAIDS; AIDS Task Force; Grim Reaper campaign; AIDS & Asia; and comments on the contributions of other individuals in the Australian response to AIDS.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS.
- Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on 22 September and 20 October 1993.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-213090291
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed transcript avaiable.
- Subject:
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- Cooper, David A. (David Albert), 1949-2018 -- Interviews
- St. Vincent's Hospital (Sydney, N.S.W.). HIV Medicine Unit -- Officials and employees -- Interviews
- Immunologists -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- AIDS (Disease) -- Research -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- HIV infections -- Australia -- Prevention
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Australia
- HIV infections -- Social aspects
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1993
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