article_snippet.sent: I knew a little bit about what HIV meant because I’d done some work with a gay men’s health charity in Glasgow
article_snippet.sent: There are 7,000 diagnoses in this country every year for people who are HIV positive.
article_snippet.sent: It’s not a good place for any of people who are HIV positive to be, I know, but 60 per cent of people who are HIV positive are not British nationals.
article_snippet.sent: You can come into Britain from anywhere in the world and get diagnosed with HIV and get the retroviral drugs that cost up to £25,000 a year per patient.
article_snippet.sent: I know there are some horrible things happening in many parts of the world, but what we need to do is put the National Health Service there for British people and families who in many cases have paid into the system for decades.
article_snippet.sent: HIV is a drop in the ocean compared to what else the NHS is spending money on. '