Robin Brady
Robin says...
Providing funding to people living with HIV and AIDS
This is very interesting. Crusaid is a single issue organisation (HIV and AIDS) and yet over the past five years we have seen many other organisations add HIV to their range of issues to campaign with and in the UK HIV services are being dilluted into general sexual health and other areas. We don’t see a rise of the single issue from where we stand, we see the demise of it. The dissolution of issues and causes into larger broadbrush approaches that are aimed at the 30-second attention...
Treatment of HIV in the UK costs the NHS approximately £400m per year. The cost of HIV prevention is a % of £50m (one off spend) as part of the govt’s ill-focussed prevention campaign for all sexually transmitted infections. What’s wrong with this picture..?
Migrant communities appear to be hard hit by HIV
HIV in the UK is seen as preventable and often the fault of the people involved. This is further compounded when a person living with HIV is also living in poverty and being supported by the state. There can be substantial negative public perceptions
The persistence of poverty-related HIV in the UK is a major factor in how we design our grant programmes.
