11am Blytheswood Square Glasgow SOCIALIST Movement Trade Union Committee 1pm London details 081 534 0459 SOCIALIST Teachers Allance AGM University of Westminster Regent Street W1 details 0203 332320 E2 unwaged from Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109 London N4 2UU Protest attacks on Lesbians and gays 10pm London Apprentice pub Old St London sponsored by LGCARF No More Hiroshimas local CND actions details 071 700 4524 Join Timex strikers' picket of ARA lobby of Bexley Council 6pm Civic Offices The Broadway Bexley nearest BR - Bexelyheath details 071 278 6869 INTERNATIONAL Youth Camp AIDS patients at the Middlesex Hospital in London are taking their own action in solidarity with nurses on the HIV Unit who face the sack.
From their beds. patients have produced a petition against the proposed £96,000 cut in the nursing budget - five nurses' jobs and a fifth of the total nurs. ing staff.
The petition has boen sent out to nursing organisations and supporters around the country and funds have already started coming in to back the nurses' People come from all over Europe to get the best available treatments for HIV related conditions at hospitals like the MidMany of these treatments may not extend life. but they pic, some people with HIV de- improve its quality. For exam- likely. velop an iliness which causes bininess, but drugs exist to pre serve sight.
Such treatment is expensive Action -and rumours abound that the HIV drugs budget faces big cuts and that AIDS patients will be 24-30 July in southern Sweden barred from the hospital's Intensive Therapy Unit. with a so-called 'centre of excellence' telling them they are not deserving of treatments which took years to develop.
Feelings are running high on the HIV Unit but the mood is solid. Staff are working to rule. the two Sisters have refused to not cooperating with competitive interviews.
The Action Committee is meting regularly and building support from groups of workers in the hospital - numbers of whom also face the sack.
Action will be stepped up in the next fortnight when managers make their nlans clearer and support and money to: The Charles Bell and Broderip Committee, Broderip Ward, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London, W1.
Twelve years into the HIV epidemic it soems people with HIV are back to square onc -
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