Rampant: How A City Stopped a Plague

I have thus far been unable to find a free net version of this doco. This is rather unfortunate.

'Rampant' portrays Australia's experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the early '80s with the stories of those who faced the unknown virus head on- a gay community demonised before the decriminalisation of sodomy had a chance to set in... Governments who paid sex-workers to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention... 'outlaw' doctors who risked the brunt of the law to give injecting users clean needles. All of whom faced a public often judgemental and relentless partially as a result of sensationalist media . The very same media which, when called to be part of the solution, responded.

Through the self-determination of 'poofters, whores & junkies'- supported by 'doctors, nurses, politicians & nuns,' Sydney, Australia prevented HIV/AIDS from maintaining the epidemic proportions faced even today by the most developed nations.