An article he wrote in the Birchgrove magazine about the death of Deborah is one of the saddest and most moving I have ever read.
Professionally he had worked in virology laboratories and had the distinction
of working on HIV in the 1980s, or HTLV-III as it was then, and hepatitis
C virus. He decided to quit when work on CJD looked likely; given that
he was infected with the previous two conditions, he felt it was tempting
fate once too often.
Out about his HIV status from the 1980s, Cady was involved in the campaign
for recompense, appearing on TV and in the newspapers. This he continued
to do right up to last year, appearing in a local documentary about hepatitis
C and blood products.
He did his best to try and make agencies more suitable to the needs of
haemophiliacs, spending years trying to get the Haemophilia Society to
employ a specific worker for those with HIV and their families; he succeeded.
He spent years trying to get the MacFarlane Trust, who administered the
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Cady at home in Brighton when Positive Nation interviewed him two years ago
recompense fund for haemophiliacs with HIV, to take its registrants' needs on board, arguing for hours at hundreds of tedious and dull meetings.
Cady was one of the gentlest people I have ever met and he cared about
