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he/she/it ✦ mid 20s, 18+ nsfw ✦ nΘnhumΔn ⓋegⒶanarchist ✦ tiplerian resurrectionist ✦ enjoyer of parrots stochastic and avian ✦ Freak.
he/she/it ✦ mid 20s, 18+ nsfw ✦ nΘnhumΔn ⓋegⒶanarchist ✦ tiplerian resurrectionist ✦ enjoyer of parrots stochastic and avian ✦ Freak.
![In March 1997, Diana visited South Africa, where she met with Nelson Mandela.[251][252] On 2 November 2002, Mandela announced that the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund would be teaming up with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to help people with AIDS.[253] They had planned the combination of the two charities a few months before her death.[253] Mandela later praised Diana for her efforts surrounding the issue of HIV/AIDS: "When she stroked the limbs of someone with leprosy or sat on the bed of a man with HIV/AIDS and held his hand, she transformed public attitudes and improved the life chances of such people".[254] Diana had used her celebrity status to "fight stigma attached to people living with HIV/AIDS", Mandela said.[253]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbeloxkcwpltzdte26sxrnds/bafkreia5lldop6p7psjfn6yokivgc6rfssz5kxrnshkq5eioipltqfizlm)
![HIV/AIDS
Diana began her work with AIDS patients in the 1980s.[242] Contrary to the prevailing stigmatization of AIDS patients, she was not averse to making physical contact with patients,[200] and was the first British royal to do so.[242] In 1987, she held hands with an AIDS patient in one of her early efforts to destigmatise the condition.[243][244] Diana noted: "HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it. What's more, you can share their homes, their workplaces, and their playgrounds and toys".[194] To Diana's disappointment, the Queen did not support this type of charity work, suggesting she get involved in "something more pleasant".[242] In July 1989, she opened Landmark Aids Centre in South London.[245][246] In October 1990, Diana opened Grandma's House, a home for young AIDS patients in Washington, DC.[247] She was also a patron of the National AIDS Trust and regularly visited London Lighthouse, which provided residential care for HIV patients (it has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust).[194][248] In 1991, she hugged one patient during a visit to the AIDS ward of the Middlesex Hospital,[194] which she had opened in 1987 as the first hospital unit dedicated to this cause in the UK.[243][249]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbeloxkcwpltzdte26sxrnds/bafkreickmagmgfrkj5oy64erw3z7bczcm2r7bll2y7diqepjlanxorhjhm)
![The rocks were covered with blackbirds [guillemots] and there were the Geirfugles ... They walked slowly. Jón Brandsson crept up with his arms open. The bird that Jón got went into a corner but [mine] was going to the edge of the cliff. It walked like a man ... but moved its feet quickly. [I] caught it close to the edge – a precipice many fathoms deep. Its wings lay close to the sides – not hanging out. I took him by the neck and he flapped his wings. He made no cry. I strangled him.[8]: 82–83](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbeloxkcwpltzdte26sxrnds/bafkreiabftgcrb5a67k4rkowypkxoyyuxnvuytalrspvqe5yxr7oobn6fq)
