Filling the gap of HIV/AIDS prevention
1992
Steve then got involved in Gay Men Fighting AIDS (GMFA) and was one of the founding Directors. “I worked in Birmingham with an agency called SLAP FM (an HIV/AIDS prevention charity) specifically looking at gay men’s prevention of HIV/AIDS. It had a total existence of about five years. It was a real gap, the NHS not understanding gay men and not wanting to confront the reality of gay men’s sex. They were very shy of some of the more graphic detail needed to understand HIV prevention. We did that and it morphed into THT (The Terrence Higgins Trust)”. Steve withdrew from them involvement in community projects when he became a Birmingham City Councillor in 1997.
Contributed by: Steve Bedser, 41