As well as the many policy areas mentioned, Godfrey Bradman was a campaigner in another – that of HIV/Aids. He established an organisation called Citizen Action, which was an umbrella for various initiatives, and also funded an Aids policy unit, in 1988.
Although this was short-lived (it folded in 1989), some of its activities, for example support for needle exchange for drug users, helped further consensus on harm reduction. Bradman funded a Gallup poll on Aids which involved researchers at Imperial College, Middlesex hospital and St Mary’s. These researchers joined with others and went on to develop the national survey of sexual lifestyles, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
