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Barry and Martin’s Trust
Mission: "AIDS education, prevention and care in the UK-China-Hong Kong context."
In China since: 1997
International Contact:
Ines Lock
Secretary
45 Bunning Way,
London N7 9UP, United Kingdom
Tel: +4420 7609 4969
Fax: +44 1869 337629
This small, grant-making trust was established in 1997, in memory of a Hong Kong man who died of AIDS. It supports AIDS education, prevention and care on the Chinese mainland, aiming to identify and work with key innovators in these fields. It also links those innovators to relevant expertise and experience in the UK and Hong Kong.
One important partner in the UK has been the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Experts from the hospital have facilitated AIDS care workshops in Yunnan and Guangxi, and have worked closely with Beijing’s Ditan hospital to develop AIDS care facilities. Ditan hospital staff, who have made short-term study and training visits to the UK, have themselves become important trainers of Chinese staff in other institutions.
These activities have also been supported by the Mary Kinross Charitable trust. Barry and Martin’s Trust and the Mary Kinross Trust are now together supporting a new AIDS clinic at Dali Number 2 Hospital in Yunnan. A British nurse trainer, placed through VSO (see separate entry), had previously worked to raise HIV/AIDS awareness the Dali hospital, with her placement costs covered by Barry and Martin’s Trust.
Barry and Martin’s Trust has also supported AIDS education among China’s gay community. As well as sponsoring the publication of a magazine, Friends (朋友), published by Qingdao Medical College Sexual Health Centre (青岛大学医学院附属医院性健康中心), it has provided funding for a network of gay hotlines in Beijing, Nanjing, Chongqing, Kunming, Dalian, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, and Shenyang.
The Trust recently pledged support for a project to assist AIDS orphans, led by a doctor from Wuhan University’s Zhongnan Hospital. In addition, it is supporting an orphanage, primary school and a clinic in an area of Henan badly affected by HIV/AIDS.
For several years, the Trust has been awarding an annual prize for excellence in AIDS education and care. In 2003, a second prize was initiated. This is a literary prize for those whose writing or film-making make an outstanding contribution to public understanding of HIV/AIDS.
Funding for the Trust comes mainly from interest on an endowment fund, most of which was donated by the founder and principal trustee, Mr. Martin Gordon .
Links
http://www.barryandmartin.org
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