article_snippet.sent: Farage attacked the high cost of health service treatment for foreigners with HIV in Thursday's General Election debate.
article_snippet.sent: When Farage attacked the high cost of health service treatment for foreigners with HIV Farage was guaranteed to provoke controversy.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg also took to Twitter to condemn the remarks, saying: ‘Farage’s comments about foreign people with HIV were simply vile and desperate.
article_snippet.sent: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg also took to Twitter to condemn the remarks, saying: ‘Farage’s comments about foreign people with HIV were simply vile and desperate.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage’s comments on HIV treatment were believed to be aimed at reviving Ukip’s core vote, as part of a strategy nicknamed ‘shock and awful’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage’s father, Wilson, was a respected physician and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons who diagnosed the first confirmed cases of HIV in Uganda in the 1970s.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Rosemary Gillespie, chief executive of HIV charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: ‘It was great to see so many people express outrage after Farage’s comments last night about the numbers of people in the UK with HIV who were not born here.