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LHSA Resources

Including the LHSA HIV/AIDS Online Resource for Teachers

HIV/AIDS Online Resources for Teachers

This website contains educational resources that are based on the UNESCO-recognised HIV and AIDS collections held by Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA). Theses collections document the social and medical response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Edinburgh and the Lothians from 1983 to 2010. It evidences the journey of a medical condition which was, at first on diagnosis, a guaranteed death sentence, to a condition that people can now live with in good health to near normal life expectancy.

HIV/AIDS Online Resources for Teachers Website

The Lothian Health Services Archive website contains further resources, particularly advice for family historians and researchers: LHSA Website.