UK AIDS Memorial Quilt unveiled at Tate Modern amid Trump-era HIV funding cuts

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UK AIDS Memorial Quilt unveiled at Tate Modern amid Trump-era HIV funding cuts  The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt has been unveiled at London’s Tate Modern, marking the first time the powerful installation has been shown in a major British gallery.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/13/uk-aids-memorial-quilt-unveiled-at-tate-modern-amid-trump-era-hiv-funding-cuts  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00To be continued...

00:30I had the idea in 1985, and it was at a time of great loss.

00:43Almost everyone I knew by 1985 was dead or dying or caring for someone who was dying of

00:47AIDS.

00:48The government did nothing in my country and in yours, so there was this terrible lack

00:52of government response, awful stigma associated with the disease, great cruelty, and frankly

01:01something that I think will go down in history as a very shameful chapter.

01:05So I wanted to grieve for my friends who had passed, but I also wanted to galvanize action

01:10to shame the governments who had failed in their response to do the right thing and provide

01:15the funding necessary for research.

01:21This has become the world's largest community arts project.

01:25And if it was all together, it would cover acres and acres and acres of land.

01:30But it remains an intensely personal experience and expression for the panel makers, who almost

01:36all of them are the family members, the loved ones of people who lost their lives to the

01:40disease.

01:41So with these panels, they participated in a collective form of grieving.

01:46It was therapeutic for many of them.

01:49It was part of a political statement.

01:52And I think that it created really a global community.

01:54I'm so disheartened and enraged by the moves of the Trump administration.

01:59It's cruel.

02:00It's unscientific.

02:01The consequences are going to be measured in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and

02:03eventually millions of people.

02:04It is estimated that in the coming months, over a half million children are going to be

02:08going to die because they no longer have access to the medications that are going to be given.

02:11It is estimated that in the coming months, over a half million children in Africa will die because

02:12they no longer have access to the medications that are going to be given.

02:13It's unconscionable.

02:14It's unconscionable.

02:15It's unconscionable.

02:16It's unconscionable.

02:17It's unconscionable.

02:18It's unconscionable.

02:19It's unconscionable.

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