§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, how widely the Health Education Council leaflet promoting awareness of the risks of acquired immune deficiency syndrome has been distributed.
§ Mr. Hayhoe654,000 copies of the leaflet have been distributed through health education units, voluntary sector bodies, employers, health professionals and other organisations. A reprint of 300,000 copies is in progress.
§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, what has been the expenditure of central Government and each regional health authority for each of the years since 1981 on all aspects of treatment and prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
§ Mr. HayhoeExpenditure on treatment or prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome—AIDS—is not separately recorded in health authority accounts and details of spending by individual regional health authorities are not therefore available. In the current financial year, the Government have so far allocated some £2 million towards the cost of treatment and prevention of AIDS. The main expenditure has been on the development and evaluation of screening tests, £880,000, additional allocations to the three Thames regions where most cases are currently occurring, £680,000, and to haemophilia reference centres, £90,000, grants to the Haemophilia Society, £47,000, and the Terrence Higgins Trust, £35,000, and funding for a public health education project £100,000. In addition the Medical Research Council has received a total of £431,000 for research into AIDS.