§ Sir Michael McNair-WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with publishers and editors of soft porn and gay magazines about their assisting in the educational campaign to warn young people and others of the AIDS risk in promiscuous sex and drug taking.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe Health Education Authority (HEA) has since February 1989 run a series of educational advertising campaigns in the gay press to alert homosexual and bisexual men to the risks of HIV infection and how they can be avoided. A further series of advertisements for placement in the gay press and a wider range of publications read by men is in production. The HEA discusses strategy for this series of campaigns with an advisory group drawn from organisations representing gay men and with representatives of the Gay Business Association.
We welcome the contribution that all sections of the press and media make, to strengthen the effectiveness of the AIDS public education effort.