A Liverpool couple were "instrumental" in helping keep down the HIV rates around the city during the 80s crisis.
Lyn Matthews, from Waterloo, said she lost count of how many friends and colleagues she lost to AIDS-related illnesses - which occur when HIV is untreated - in the 1980s and 1990s. The 70-year-old social worker told the ECHO: “It was heartbreaking. Seeing young men die, or only having a matter of time before they were going to die. It made you think.
"While there were very few IV drug users who were infected, many of my gay friends were. It was endless hospital visits, trying to put on a brave face. Watching how others who were also HIV-positive caring for their friends when they became ill was quite humbling. These men knew that soon they would be facing the same end. I watched my friends die one by one.”
