We are pleased to publish our impact report for 2019. with an introduction by our new president Lord Norman Fowler.
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Norman Fowler, who was Secretary of State for Health and Social Services from 1981 to 1987, is a passionate advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS, and took a bold approach to confront the epidemic in the 1980s. Lord Fowler was the architect of the ‘AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance’ public health campaign started by the British government in 1987 in response to the rise of HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom.
Fowler claimed that “90% of the public recognised the advert and a vast number changed their behaviour because of it” and as it was a “life and death situation…There was no time to think about whether it might offend one or two people” as hospital wards were “full of young men dying”. The campaign had a lasting effect on the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the UK.
We are grateful to have Lord Fowler as our president.