Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. When we first heard about HIV in the early 1980s, it was a death sentence and everybody was afraid of it. We have moved on a little. People realise that, with effective treatments, HIV does not become AIDS but can be treated effectively. On lighter note, what do the witnesses think of the soap opera storylines that touch on HIV and AIDS? Over the summer I was following one on "Emmerdale". Do they help educate people, or are they way off the mark?