P216 CEEFAX 216  Mon  3 Nov  21:25/33
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   ] 
                                        
 The Govjrnmjnt has set up a Cabinet    
 committee to tackle the problem of AIDS
                                        
 The chairman is the deputy Prime       
 Minister, Lord Whitelaw.               
                                        
 The BBC's political correspondent s!id 
 Govjrnmjnt sources are reticent about  
 the committee's work, apart from saying
 that it was set up "fairly recently"   
 and will consider all aspects of the   
 disjasj.                               
                                        
 Among likely measures the committee    
 will take are the sending of health    
 information leaflets to everyone in    
 the country.                           
                                        
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   P216 CEEFAX 216  Mon  3 Nov  21:14/47
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    BACKGROUND
   ] 
                                        
 Up to the end of September 1986 there  
 had been a total of 512 cases of AIDS  
 in the United Kingdom, of whose victims
 2u0 people have died.                  
                                        
 In a Commons written reply, Health     
 minister Mr Tony Newton said tod!y the 
 number of cases has been doubling about
 every ten months.                      
                                        
 One nurse had djvjlopjd AIDS           
 following an accident with a           
 contaminated needle, said Mr Newton.   
                                        
 There had been no cases of blood donors
 transmitting the AIDS virus since      
 screening of donated blood began in    
 October 1985.                          
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