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a council report found, and previous spending has concentrated
on improving the external appearance of buildings rather than making the
insides of flats and houses into healthy living environments.
TB is particularly prevalent in overcrowded and unhealthy housing and
the area is also known as a high incidence area for HIV.
Dr Ade Fakoya, senior HIV consultant at Newham General Hospital, told
Positive Nation that TB and HIV "are inextricably linked."
Hospitals around the country are now offering HIV tests to people who
have TB, Dr Fakoya said, because "an appreciable percentage of people
with HIV also have TB."
Newham Council says a government cap of £4,000 for Home Repairs
Assistance grants to any individual property in any three-year period
coupled with high rates of homeless people and asylum seekers in the borough
is aggravating the problem.
Newham Healthcare NHS has recently hosted a launch of a European study
entitled: 'Talking about Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV with Immigrant
Communities'.
For copies of the report, contact Judith Sutherland on 020 7363 8010.
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The Art of Sex
Visitors to Soho during the last week of August were astonished to see a couple sleep, drink, eat and make love in a bed in a shop window. The stunt, entitled ' No Inhibition', was a piece by UK artist Liam Yeates. Originally planned as a comment on the current obsession with webcams and reality TV, it also turned into a safer-sex message when Yeates approached condom manufacturers Condomi for sponsorship.
Yeates said: "I wanted to kick back into the media the message of safe sex, because it's not going away. Sex
