AGATA DZIUBAN TODD SEKULER JUSTYNA STRUZIK
● Creative Sick States ●
The European HIV/AIDS Archive (EHAA; the Archive) is a living collection of narratives of the past, present, and imagined futures of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It brings together a multiplicity of oral history interviews accompanied by virtual copies of policy documents, community reports and leaflets, HIV/AIDS witness seminar transcripts, art works, and other historical materials. It complements and expands upon the HIV/AIDS archives that exist in different European countries. Simultaneously, it acknowledges that the complex history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the broader European region is yet to be told.
While most analyses and cultural representations of activist engage ments with HIV and political responses to the spread of the virus have focused on the United States and, less frequently, on selected countries of the Global South, little attention has been directed to how the epidemic unfolded in different parts of Europe. This may, in part, be due to the fact that personal and institutional materials have been lost or destroyed—due to floods (as was the case with parts of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for
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