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Chipping away at the AIDS iceberg

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A year later, when a little-known surgery in Edinburgh revealed 83 of a sample of drug users were infected with the virus, it prompted a national outcry. People were afraid of catching the virus on the bus, off toilet seats, or kissing. Imagine the frisson of fear that went round everybody. All of a sudden there was this huge group of people who could be HIV-positive, as well as their partners and children. It opened up all sorts of anxieties.

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Two decades on, there still is a sadness in the area at the number of mothers, fathers, grandmothers and young children who died a slow, debilitating death from AIDS. But, thanks to harm minimisation schemes, such as providing sterile needles, the rate of infection among drug-users has dropped significantly. Much of the reason for the spread of HIV among drug users was the popularity of sharing equipment among tens of users - for cost reasons, and because needles were restricted by the police. Now there are around 47 HIV- infected patients treated at the surgery.

Robertson has seen a steady increase in infections among Scots picking up infections abroad, and among immigrants.

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In the early s, public service warnings featuring icebergs and tombstones scared television viewers into taking the threat of AIDS seriously but, as the massive increase in sexually transmitted diseases in Scotland shows, people are no longer taking stringent precautions. More than 4, people in Scotland have been diagnosed with HIV since Between January and November , new cases of HIV were identified, compared to for the whole of Robertson feels it is time to renew the message.

Scots are also helping tackle HIV far from the streets of Edinburgh.

When Dr John Budd talks about the "greatest health crisis facing humanity" and "a pandemic beyond our comprehension," it is easy to balk at his apocalyptic vision. When he describes working in a South African antenatal clinic where almost a third of mothers are HIV positive, the everyday misery of a million orphaned children make such predictions sink in.

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Budd's experience of suffering in South Africa has certainly inspired a zeal not seen in many family doctors. It has also inspired Scotland's first official scheme to send GPs to help some of the victims in South Africa.

Budd set up the scheme after visiting the township of Khayelitsha, where there are more HIV-infected inhabitants than in the whole of the UK. When British GPs arrive in the area they will be confronted with antenatal clinics where