How are we to appreciate and comprehend what it has been like to live with HIV and AIDS-related illness over the past three decades or more? When the AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s, scientific knowledge and medical treatment had a limiting effect on quality of life and life expectancy for people living with HIV and AIDS-related illness. During this era the very idea of AIDS signified fear, panic, stigma, prejudice, acute chronic illness and the real threat of imminent death both within and outside of a UK context. As the global expansion of HIV scientific knowledge continues to...