Visit of MP Leading on HIV
posted: 10/08/2009
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HIV APPGA MP visit
The Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, David Borrow MP, came on a fact finding tour to George House Trust last week. David Borrow is MP for a NW constituency, South Ribble.
Two Positive Speakers gave excellent presentations and we also focused on other types of volunteering. We raised issues around funding, people 'lost to treatment'*, and how to improve links with MPs and local councillors.
The visit was useful and appreciated.
This is what he has to say on his website about chairing the All Party Group.
"Although there are relatively few people in South Ribble directly affected by HIV/AIDS, I have always been interested in doing what I can to build public awareness of the disease both here in the UK and overseas. I have visited the George House Trust in Manchester on a regular basis to see the work they do in the North West, I have also visited African countries such as Botswana, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia to see the work being undertaken there. Last year I visited FOMO, a Walmer Bridge based charity looking after over 5,000 orphans in Malawi."
All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS
* Lost to Treatment
Check the next issue of Insight for the results of George House Trust's investigation into hundreds of people diagnosed with HIV who have abandoned their NW HIV clinics. Insight 49, the Pride issue, will be available in paper, and on our website, and as a .pdf file, from 20 August.
Photo from MP's website
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