Crowdfunder Link: RIO CALLING Fundraising Link
This is a special compilation episode featuring highlights from Series 1 and 2 of HIV: The Morning After, released ahead of Series 3 in June 2026.
What do you do when you were quietly certain you were going to die, and then you didn't? This episode is about the long aftermath of survival.
It covers what grief becomes when it stops being a storm and turns into ordinary weather: going to so many funerals you stop going. It covers the particular invisibility of being a young Black gay man in HIV services that hadn't imagined you existed. A GP treating dying patients while privately compartmentalising his own diagnosis. A decade spent keeping life deliberately small - no plans, no ambitions, nothing too far ahead - and the slow, confusing work of learning to want things again when the assumption of early death turned out to be wrong.
And everywhere, just beneath the surface, the people who were months too early for the drugs that would have saved them.
Resources
Terrence Higgins Trust - HIV information, support and campaigning www.tht.org.uk
NAM aidsmap - Clear, evidence-based information about HIV www.aidsmap.com
Positively UK - Peer support for people living with HIV in the UK www.positivelyuk.org
National AIDS Trust - Policy and advocacy www.nat.org.uk
Samaritans - Free, confidential support if you're struggling Call: 116 123 | www.samaritans.org
Links
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Music by Paul Leonidou: www.unstoppablemonsters.com
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RIO CALLING! Crowd-funder
We're taking over the feed for 'Rio Calling': six daily despatches from AIDS 2026, the world's biggest HIV conference. Each day Dan Glass and I will bring you the stories that matter most to people living with HIV and the people working to end it - straight from the conference floor in Rio.
The wonderful folks at BHIVA have helped get us there, but there remains a funding gap. The rest is down to you. If you can chip in via the Crowdfunder link below, you'll be helping to put these six episodes in people's ears - and we'd be genuinely grateful. Thank you for listening, and for keeping this going.
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