Don Baxter interviewed by James Waites (1993)

Don Baxter, former President, AIDS Council of New South Wales, reflects on his experiences as President, AIDS Council of NSW, including: involvement in gay activism; Brian McGahen campaign; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; blood supply; early gay community response to HIV; government policy initiatives; ACON formation; safe sex education; contrast in Australian-American responses to the disease; ACON structure; NACAIDS; AIDS Task Force; AZT availability; ANCA; testing issue; AIDS national strategy; position as ACON Education Manager; Grim Reaper campaign; Commonwealth Dept. of Health; Macquarie University research; Richardson; dangers in mainstreaming AIDS services into sexual health services; AFAO; AIDS Trust; AIDS treatment; long term survivors; alternative therapies; comparison of AIDS & cancer research funding; heterosexual education campaigns; drug user HIV prevention programs; school HIV education; AIDS Councils & minorities; burnout; and comments on the contributions of other individuals in the Australian response to AIDS.