Explained: The UK's forgotten epidemic | The fight against AIDS

HIV / AIDS is still considered a global epidemic by the World Health Organisation. Around 60 per cent of new infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK and US we view it as a distant crisis, but many members of the scientific and LGBT communities will never forget the horrific peak of the 1980s.

Fran Drinkwater speaks to campaigners, an epidemiologist and AIDS survivor.


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