Dr Tristan Barber: Prescription, Patient, Pioneer

HIV: The Morning After · Sep 10, 2026 · 49m

A leading HIV consultant who went from writing prescriptions to needing them in the summer of 2002 - and became the first person living with HIV to lead the British HIV Association.

Summary

Tristan Barber was born in Cornwall in 1975, took his A-levels at 16, and arrived in London in September 1992 as a gay man from a rural county where nobody was out. Medical school felt like a small homophobic village. London in the 90s did not. He went to clubs every night, nearly failed his studies from enjoying himself almost too much, and eventually landed his first job in sexual health and HIV at a…