Helen Christophers on the UK’s first HIV/AIDS campaigns and the attitude of Tory Ministers

Helen Christophers, formerly Programme Manager, Health Education Authority, UK, now a freelance sexual health consultant on: the setting up of the first awareness campaign by the British Government on HIV/AIDS; political attitudes from then Tory Government Ministers and Margaret Thatcher; the relationship with the independent trusts like Terence Higgins; and how the awareness campaigns changed