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Aids

Volume 199: debated on Tuesday 19 November 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what funds are currently being paid to the Health Education Authority for AIDS awareness campaigns;(2) how much expenditure on AIDS awareness is targeted at ethnic minorities;(3) how much money is paid yearly by the Health Education Authority to the National AIDS Trust and upon what conditions as to the following of an equal opportunities policy by the National AIDS Trust.

In the current financial year the Health Education Authority (HEA) has been allocated £9·5 million to carry forward AIDS mass media campaigns in the United Kingdom and for supporting AIDS educational work in England.Of this sum £640,000 has been allocated to media, project and research work directed at ethnic minorities. In addition, health authorities have been asked to give priority attention to the HIV educational needs of ethnic minorities in developing local HIV prevention work.Funding to the National AIDS Trust (NAT) is for specific projects, as follows:

£
1990–92 NAT young people's initiative and 46,000 publication of a report46,000
1991–93 Funding over three years for the NAT HIV/AIDS women's project105,000
The HEA has also provided £3,139 in the current year to assist the NAT in co-ordinating the United Kingdom response to world AIDS day on 1 December.The hon. Member may wish to contact the HEA direct for information about equal opportunities policy.