Which-UK-charity {it is focused on AIDS/HIV issues)-is named after a 37-year-old who was-one of the first in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness, in 1982?
HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom death in the UK. 1982, 4 July: Terry Higgins dies of an AIDS related illness - leading to the establishment of the Terrence Higgins Trust. 1987, 9 April: Princess Diana opens a new ward at Middlesex Hospital for the treatment of HIV patients, shaking the hands of AIDS patients without gloves. 1987: The British Government launched "AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance", a major public information campaign. A leaflet about AIDS was delivered to every household in the UK, which warned that it is impossible to tell who is infected with the virus. 1991, 24 November: Queen star Freddie Mercury dies
HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom well as increasing numbers of people acquiring HIV later in life. Pre-exposure prophylaxis ("PrEP") using a drug which can prevent HIV infection, is available to high risk individuals as part of a three-year trial on the NHS, after a legal battle in the High Court. Use of PrEP in London, both as part of a trial and from private purchases, was partially credited in a drop in diagnoses among men who have sex with men, after a five-year plateau in diagnoses. 1981, 12 December: A 49-year-old man dies in Brompton hospital due to an AIDS related illness - the first