VIDEO : Gordon Brown Expresses Commitment To Making AIDS And HIV History

Speaking in a message for World AIDS Day, Prime Minister Gordon Brown pays tribute to activists who’ve stayed committed to the challenge of making AIDS and HIV history.

Highlighting the role of the UK gay community in the 1980s in spearheading this movement, Brown also speaks of the growing band of people across the world who acting to play their own part, and how in the last decade the UK has invested nearly £3 million in domestic preventation work.

Keen to point out that a quarter of people don’t know they are infected, Brown also discusses the importance of testing and his government’s commitment to making sure not only does this happen but that they have access to the drugs when diagnosed.

Finishing by saying “We are not prepared to see people die simply because they are too poor to live both at home and abroad”, Brown believes by working together it truly is possible to make HIV and AIDs history.