Users News "The Road Well Travelled" 2009

Julie Bates played a leading role in Australia’s early response to HIV/AIDS and has spent the past three decades working to improve the legal and human rights of marginalised people, specifically sex workers, injecting drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS. Julie was a foundation member of ADIC (the AIDS Drug Information Collective, the forerunner to NUAA) and was the first coordinator of NUAA. Today, Julie heads up Urban Realists, which provides advice and support to the sex industry. In this interview with User’s News editor Gideon Warhaft, Julie talks about the early days of HIV in Australia, specifically its impact on injecting drug users.

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Users News "The Road Well Travelled" 2009