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Mildmay Mission AIDS hospital opens

Title
Mildmay Mission AIDS hospital opens
Genre
Interview
TX Date
23 Feb 1988
Year of production
1988
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Duration
00:03:13
Description
Margaret Shiels reports on the opening of the Mildmay Mission hospital. The world’s first hospice ward set aside exclusively for AIDS patients in east London claims to be the only Christian AIDs hospice in the world to offer specialised care for patients in the terminal stages of the killer disease. Includes interview with Helen Taylor-Thompson, hospice governor.
Contributors
Margaret Shiels; Helen Taylor-Thompson
Keywords
London; Health; UK; Great Britain; Hospitals; Hackney; Charities; Diseases; AIDS; HIV; Hospices; Mildmay Mission hospital

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