AIDS: The Lost Voices

Geoffrey Pearce O.A.M. was a prison corrections officer at Long Bay Jail in New South Wales who, shortly after completing his training at 21 he was deliberately stabbed with a needle contaminated with HIV-positive blood by an inmate from the Jail’s AIDS wing, The Malabar Assessment Unit. Geoff turned his diagnosis and the publicity surrounding the assault into a platform for education, confronting the fear and stigma by demonstrating that people living with HIV were not to be feared.