UK Aids Memorial Quilt to go on display at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

The UK Aids Memorial Quilt on display at St Paul's Cathedral in London in 2016. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

A giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London.

The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who died from it. By the end of 2011, 20,335 people diagnosed with HIV had died in the UK.