article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage controversial claim that foreign nationals with HIV should not be treated on the NHS was part of what insiders called a ‘shock and awful’ strategy.
article_snippet.sent: A Ukip source revealed the party had initially planned for Mr Farage to mention the number of foreign patients suffering from tuberculosis, in the leaders debates last night.
article_snippet.sent: But when it was discovered that the antiretroviral drugs to treat people with HIV were more expensive, a decision was taken to use that example instead.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage controversial claim that foreign nationals with HIV should not be treated on the NHS was part of what insiders called a ‘shock and awful’ strategy .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage was greeted with silence in the hall when Mr Farage said during the debate about the NHs that of the 7,000 diagnosed with HIV, 60 per cent were born abroad.
article_snippet.sent: After saying this was something the leaders would be ‘mortified that I dare to even talk about this’, Mr Farage said: ‘You can come to Britain from anywhere in the world and get diagnosed with HIV and get the retroviral drugs that cost up to £25,000 per year per patient.
article_snippet.sent: A Ukip insider added: ‘A Ukip insider were going to go for TB but A Ukip insider found out that the HIV drugs were more expensive’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage’s was greeted with silence in the hall when Mr Farage’s said during the debate about the NHs that of the 7,000 diagnosed with HIV, 60 per cent were born abroad .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Carswell’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: Mr Farage’s seat in a by-election in October by calling for a ban on people with HIV entering the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Noone is seriously suggesting we should screen people for HIV coming in.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukip leader said foreigners with HIV should not be treated on the NHS .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Farage had planned to mention foreign patients suffering from TB .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Farage chose HIV after discovering the NHS drugs to treat disease more expensive .