People learnt they couldn't catch HIV from day-to-day contact. They chose the Rudolf Steiner kindergarten and school in Hastings.Ĭecile Hurford, whose daughter was in the school and would become a pall bearer for Eve, remembers a handful of families removed their children as a result but the publicity around Eve resulted in about 50 extra children enrolling. 'We had all the schools in New Zealand wanting to take Eve,' Mrs Carey said. Former journalist Robert Stockdill started a fundraising campaign to bring the family over and so on Jthey arrived in Hawke's Bay.Ī local family put them up till they found a home of their own, jobs were offered, the family were kissed and hugged by well-wishers when they got off the plane. It was enough for her to decide to move her family – Eve, older daughter Dana, husband John, and herself – back to New Zealand. 'It was very barbaric really,' Mrs Carey said. What happened in Australia was horrific, petty, and ill-informed.Įve's friends were beaten up, people would cross the road to avoid her, and neighbours built high fences around their properties to protect themselves from Aids. 'I went down to the local radio station not realising what was about to happen.' 'I said, 'I will save you the trouble',' Mrs Carey remembered this week. Soon after, she was told by a bureaucrat from the Gosford City Council and childcare centre head in Kincumber, New South Wales, Australia: Withdraw your daughter from kindergarten or we will go public with the fact she has HIV. I didn't have to but I thought it was a good thing to tell and discuss it.' It was a far cry from when Mrs Van Grafhorst was told in Australia that her toddler daughter had HIV. 'Her small white casket lay covered in flowers, candles and one simple smiling photograph of the child whose short life became a symbol to New Zealanders of the fight against Aids,' The Dominion reported. Politicians, family, supporters, and hundreds of friends attended. Nearly 700 people attended her funeral, then believed to be Hawke's Bay's biggest. Eve would defy medical expectations and live for 11 years, dying 20 years ago this week in Hawke's Bay.ĭuring her life she exposed prejudice in Australia, put a human face on HIV and Aids in New Zealand, became friends with broadcaster Paul Holmes, received a letter from Princess Di, was (sort-of) married, went to Disneyland – and made hundreds of friends.

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