BODY AND SOUL CAMPAIGN

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That this House welcomes the Body and Soul, a smile is a gift, campaign, which aims to challenge the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV from a positive and empowering platform; is concerned that the rate of infections continues to rise in the United Kingdom with a 14 per cent. increase in 2004; acknowledges that all communities have a part to play in tackling HIV stigma and discrimination, with on average a hundred people in each parliamentary constituency living with HIV; and calls on the Government to honour its commitment to involving those affected by HIV in the policy-making process by consulting young people from Body and Soul's Teen Spirit group on how stigma and discrimination affects this particularly vulnerable and disenfranchised group.