his honour is honoured
It was lovely to receive (after some apparent diversions)
your letter of 30 July enclosing the Positive Nation Award. I much appreciate
receiving it and am honoured to have been voted into this position by
your readers. Suitably framed, it is going up onto my study wall very
shortly! Every strength with the continuing work.
Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court Of Appeal, Bloemfontein,
South Africa
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consulted or insulted?
I'm not sure what to do with the National Strategy for Sexual Health and
HIV questionnaire in the last issue of Positive Nation.
"Make a noise and get involved", says the UK Coalition's Ruth
Webb. But Ian Kramer and Paul McCrory, the HIV 'experts' during the Strategy's
consultation phase, say they felt they were only involved as tokens. Will
my filled-in questionnaire also allow decision-makers to say they consulted
me, as they toss my feedback in the bin and slash services anyway? I doubt
whether further to this 'consultation' HIV infection rates will fall or
the quality of life of PWHIVs improve.
Anyway, as a professional journalist I cannot imagine more than a tenth
of respondents actually being able to fill the bloody thing in correctly.
Hands up who knows what "targeted service networks and strategies"
are?
Marcel Wiel, London NW1
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who teaches the doctors?
Ruth's article 'Divided we will fail' (PN
November) is somewhat alarming
