Ex-British Culture Minister Chris Smith has lived with the HIV virus for 17 years, he has revealed to the Sunday Times. The former cabinet minister decided to go public after the former South African President Nelson Mandela announced his son Makgatho Mandela, had died of AIDS. Mr Smith was quickly put on a course of anti-retrovirals after he was diagonosed . He said that he had "been with the National Health Service all the time".
Ex-British Culture Minister has lived with the HIV virus for 17 years, he has revealed to the Sunday Times. The former cabinet minister decided to go public after the former South African President announced his son Makgatho Mandela, had died of AIDS. Mr Smith was quickly put on a course of anti-retrovirals after he was diagnosed . He said that he had "been with the National Health Service all the time".
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