it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. john s openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwide to this horrible virus i did have an uncle who was gay who was banished from the family when he was 16 years old, and he passed away of hiv when i was 16, 17 years old and it broke my heart. i didn t quite understand what was going on at that point because he was really never spoken about within the confines of our immediate family, but i remember being absolutely heartbroken hearing of his passing because he died without knowing
Angie Diale, who passed away on Christmas Eve, spoke openly about her health and worked as a health and relationship counsellor. She was remembered at a memorial service in Soweto on Monday.