It is those who have the least to fear about Aids who are the most worried, according to the Terrence Higgins Trust. Simon Watney warns that misleading assessments of risk, anti-homosexual hysteria, and political philosophies influencing educational approaches could mean a bleak future.
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Third Report from the Social Services Committee, together with the proceedings of the Committee, House of Commons, 13 May, 1987.
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Daniel Rosenheim, Cost ofAids burdens S.F., San Francisco Chronicle, 8 April, 1987.
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Geoffrey Dickens on Heart of The Matter, BBC 1, March, 1987.
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For example, the recently failed amendment to the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, proposed by Gerald Howarth, and likely to re-emerge with Government support.