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Title: A Hard Silence
Author: Melanie Brooks
Narrator: Melanie Brooks
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
Release date: 06-17-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Medicine & Health Care Industry
Publisher's Summary:
In the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed, infecting close to two thousand Canadians with HIV. Among them was Melanie Brooks's surgeon father who, after receiving a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery in 1985, learned he was HIV positive. At a time when HIV/AIDS was misunderstood and public perception was shaped by fear, prejudice, and homophobia, victims of the disease faced ostracism and persecution. Wanting to protect his family from this stigma, Melanie's father decided his illness would be a secret they'd all keep.
