Stephen Fry: HIV and me. Part 2.

Stephen Fry explores what being HIV positive means in the early 21st century. Given that there are now three times more people with AIDS in the UK than there were ten years ago and that in the last ten years heterosexual HIV has risen by 400%, why is it that AIDS rarely hits the headlines? Fry meets a variety of people, both heterosexual and homosexual, who are HIV positive themselves or have experienced a partner with HIV or AIDS. In this part we look in particular at how drug therapies affect people and how people cope with the fact that even with medication they may still die from the condition. Fry looks at the history of the 'triple therapy' and new developments in drugs to suppress HIV as well as so-called 'salvage patients' whose bodies are resistant to all forms of available drugs. He also visits a Ugandan hospital to see how they are attempting to treat those with HIV / AIDS given so few resources and corruption surrounding the drugs industry. Fry also examines the stigma still associated with being HIV positive.