Ade explains: "I'd been a trustee of Blackliners and enjoyed that,
but then THT approached me because they were looking for someone with
expertise in aspects of the emerging African epidemic.
"Two things which frighten me are the way in which the epidemic in
Britain is going into a second wave. There were lots of Ugandans with
HIV here in the late 1980s
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We've also seen a new syphilis epidemic. This country's quite conservative
with a small c. Anything that helps, like good sex education, it really
doesn't want to know about, and issues like anti-discrimination and equality
are not addressed or even understood."
Have you heard of asylum seekers being denied HIV treatments?
"I don't know how often this is happening but we are hearing anecdotal
reports. One of the most shocking things is that the government introduces
antenatal programmes to try and reduce mother-to-child transmission and
then refuses
Above: Tamara Beckwith, ex-Eastender Linda Colson, and Gaby Roslin with Dermot O'Leary, pictured fundraisung for THT
treatments to these women when they're found to be HIV positive. It's against any basic human right to
