Paul Clift: archives

This collection covers Paul Clift's work as Director of the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and Aids, and as a Patient Representative and Committee member in various groups and organisations. Materials include newsletters, reports, NHS papers and guidelines, user surveys and business documents. It also contains printed and published material gathered at HIV/AIDS conferences and from other organisations such as leaflets, postcards and flyers, Fact sheets, reports and briefings, periodicals and conference programmes and digital materials designed for training and education.

Subjects covered include: Global majority groups; Global contexts, with a specific focus on Africa / Black African experiences; Young people and families; Older people; Working Class people; Transgender people; LGBTQIA rights and perspectives; Human rights; Criminal justice system / legal; Ethnicity and migration; Social services; Drugs, treatment, pharmacological; Community / societal ; Theological ; HIV / AIDS and stigma; Nursing and healthcare; Patient involvement, representation and input in HIV healthcare; Suicide; Preventative healthcare / living with HIV/AIDS / public health.

1988-2018

6 boxes, 2 outsize boxes, 9 outsize files, 12 DVDs, 2046 digital items 44,794.26 MB (44794260000 bytes)

This collection was not in a specific arrangement at the point of acquisition, though many conference packs contained ephemera and printed materials gathered at those events. Titles in quotation marks or italics are the original titles on the files, all other titles were assigned by the cataloguer. The collection has been arranged by the cataloguer as follows:

A) Archival documentation of Clift’s work in various roles.

B) HIV/ AIDS conferences and workshops, including printed and published materials gathered at them.

C) Grey literature, publications and ephemera collected by Clift.

Donated by Paul Clift in 2022.

Paul Clift has been an activist in HIV since the early 1990s. He has represented the community on many boards and committees with the British HIV Association and NHS England. He is an advisory board member of several research projects related to HIV and to LGBT experiences of illness and bereavement. He is a long-standing member of the UK Community Advisory Board and an active member of the European AIDS Treatment Group.

Paul was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 and became increasingly involved in the field of activism from the early 1990s following the death of his partner. Paul has worked as a Patient Representative in clinical settings, including at Lawson Unit in Brighton and King's College Hospital, as well as serving on numerous committees and studies over the years.

Infectious Diseases Biobank: Governance Committee member (2012-2019)

King's College Hospital NHS Trust, Patient Representative (2008-2019).

Lawson Unit, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton: Patient representative (HIV/AIDS),

BHIVA (British HIV Association): Conferences Sub-committee member; Executive Committee member; Guidelines Sub-Committee member (2010-2019).

European AIDS Treatment Group: European Community Advisory Board

Steering Committee Member, Co-Chair (2012-2018).

National HIV Clinical Reference Group: member (Informs and influences national commissioning (England and Wales) HIV care and treatment, 2012-2016).

POPPY Study (Ageing and HIV): Communications Steering Committee member (2013-2015).

SUPA Study (Medicines and health beliefs among Caribbean and African populations in UK): Steering Committee member (2012-2015).

REACH Study: Steering Committee Chair, (Exploring patterns of Retention and Engagement Across specialised Care services of HIV positive patients in the UK. Aiming to develop cost effective interventions to optimise patients' engagement in care.) 2013 - 2014.

Transferred to Wellcome.

This collection has been catalogued and is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records.

17 published books and one DVD were removed from the collection to be catalogued separately. Digital material has been transferred from the original physical media to secure storage. The physical media has not been retained, unless required as an access copy. Duplicate copies have been removed. 1 disk could not be read: "16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto; IAC XVI; CROI 2008, Boston 48 week results from Benchmark-1 and Benchmark-2 a phase III study".

Material previously held by Paul Clift.