A.I.D.S. victim gets Royal visit
NZPA-PA London The Queen met an A.I.D.S. victim for the first time yesterday and watched as a Red Cross volunteer helped Peter Thomson, aged 39, use cream to camouflage scars caused by skin cancer. Mr Thomson, from London, a volunteer with Front Liners, a selfhelp group for people with A.1.D.5., said: “We have been given the ultimate destigmatisation by the Queen. We will have to see if the rest of the country and the world follow the Queen’s lead.” Mr Thomson, who worked as a computer programmer before contracting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, said visits by the Queen and Princess Diana with A.I.D.S. sufferers showed the disease could no longer be categorised as twentieth-century leprosy.
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Press, 2 December 1989, Page 12
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