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Former health secretary Norman Fowler: 'Some said those with HIV should be in isolation. Perpetually'


Former health secretary Norman Fowler: ‘Some said those with HIV should be in isolation. Perpetually’
Chris Godfrey
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Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian
In late 1985, Norman Fowler, who was then the health secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s government, sent a letter to the prime minister. He said that there had been 275 people with Aids in the UK that year. Of these, 144 had died. Without action, he added, a further 20,000 people would be infected with HIV by 1988. The UK was on the precipice of a public health emergency. Fowler encountered a lot of scepticism.
“People at the time said that I was entirely taken over by the subject, and that I overexaggerated,” says Lord Fowler, now 83 and speaking via Zoom from his home in Fulham, south-west London. He looks composed, and every bit the lord in recess, wearing a pastel pink shirt underneath a green jumper. Behind him sits a glass cabinet stuffed with weigh ....

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