HIV/Aids: Joined-Up Government

"The current priority given to preventing HIV and AIDS in the UK is woefully inadequate and a new priority must be given to prevention policies if the epidemic is to be stemmed."

Report from the House of Lords HIV and Aids in the UK Select Committee.

• "Treatment costs have increased vastly and now approach £1 billion a year."

• "Spending on prevention is seriously inadequate. HIV is entirely preventable but the latest figures show that the Government spent only £2.9 million on national prevention programmes, compared with £762 million on treatment."

Cuts to London HIV prevention groups 2011-2012 budgets: 20% - £520,000* [BBC News, May]

Estimated lifetime treatment costs for one person diagnosed with HIV: £320,000 [Health Protection Agency]


Read the report 'No Vaccine, No Cure' here.

• Queer Resistance Against The Cuts

* The seeming discrepancy between this amount and the £2.9 million quoted above is because there are two separate budgets; national campaigns and local campaigns. "National" is not the total UK budget. The local London budget is the largest in the UK and was £3 million.