Phil Donahue: AIDS Face to Face (11/13/1986) 

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.

you can on contract hiv from blood to blood contact.

@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..

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.

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

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Roseanne was the best!

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@@Dpurple28well Rosanne bar went insane herself 😊

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.

You’re 100% correct!!!

You must be white

@@juliannenakigudde6855 You must be a bigot

@@pooddescrewch8718 fool

@@juliannenakigudde6855 Bigot

its because of anal sex hun

Not really, if they didnt believe

Amen x

not all of them.

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.

True. We definitely did our war veterans a massive disservice in so many ways.

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.

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.

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.

@@kmsleyang8972omg how terrifying ❣️

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

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

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.

Not

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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It was the 80s, calm down. It wasn’t as “chiller” as you think.

It's the musical answer to a jump scare.

I heard it's extremely expensive though

@@leob4403 ohhh hmm

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 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.

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 .

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.

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 ?

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