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By Miriam Barker
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image captionRussell T Davies' series It's A Sin helped Channel 4's streaming service to a record-breaking month
"By the time I was 25, I had lost 50 friends to Aids and I stopped counting at that point."
Mike Phillips, 53, was a young gay man in the 1980s and, like many others who have watched Russell T Davies' Channel 4 series It's a Sin, he has been reflecting on the HIV and Aids crisis it depicts.
The programme has shone a light on the misunderstandings and the mistreatment of many gay men at the time.