HIV efforts 'woefully inadequate' in UK

Efforts to stop the spread of HIV/Aids in the UK are "woefully inadequate" and a new awareness campaign is needed, a House of Lords committee has said...

...Its report says the number of people in the UK being treated for the illness trebled in the past decade and almost 100,000 people will have HIV by 2012...

...The Department of Health said with no cure, prevention and safe sex were key...

...Medical advances in antiretroviral drugs mean fewer people are dying. However, the Lords select committee report warns this is putting "increasing pressure on the health service"...

...The committee wants a national campaign to raise awareness of HIV and Aids in the same way as the Don't Die of Ignorance campaign in the 1980s...

...Committee chairman Lord Fowler, who ran the 1980s awareness campaign, said: "In the last 25 years the development of new drugs has dramatically reduced the death toll but that should not encourage a false sense of security.

"Acquiring HIV is not remotely consequence-free.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14730609