ACCESS TO TREATMENT FOR HIV

That this House notes that there is a clear contradiction between the UK's policy aim of universal access to treatment for all those who need it by 2010 and the deportation of people living with HIV who are on treatment to countries where treatment is not readily available or affordable; further notes that the withdrawal of treatment increases the body's vulnerability to opportunistic infection and will result in drastically shortened life expectancy; and welcomes the launch of the African HIV Policy Network's campaign calling on the Government to allow HIV positive people on HIV treatment to stay in the United Kingdom until they are able to return home when access to antiretroviral treatments becomes more widely available.