Positive review – the panic and prejudice of the 80s Aids crisis

Sky’s documentary tells the story of how a devastating HIV/Aids epidemic unfolded in Britain, via the people who cared for its casualties – and those who antagonised themBy 1981, Aids was in Britain. Forty years on, World Aids Day offers us a chance to look back and take stock, and gives television a chance to make a documentary in which a specific issue reflects the changing mores of society.Episode one of Positive (Sky Documentaries), a three-part chronology of the Aids era, takes