Positively Healthy was formed over lunch one afternoon in 1986. It was formed as a result of the death of my best friend called David Reichenberg, who was the lead oboe player for the English Concert who were and are I believe England's leading baroque orchestra. David died of AIDS. David was a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist, an American from Iowa, beautiful lovely man, beautiful oboe player, and physically stunning, wonderful company. After he died, I went into shock and I decided I didn't want to see anyone else die like David died. He died in '86 which is when everyone died actually. We did the Actor's Mastery together. A thing called the AIDS Mastery a Sally Fisher from Los Angeles created for actors to train them how to be fearless. Also the training later became the Samurai training. The Actor's Mastery became the AIDS Mastery and David and I did it but David became ill half way through, didn't complete it and died shortly afterwards. I decided after being with David, as he died, I was by his bedside, holding his hand as he died, and the last thing I said to David before he died was I want to make sure no one ever dies this way again. After David died I got in touch with Simon Martin who had founded the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and at the time edited Britain's leading health journal called "Here's Health", and Dietmar Bolle an HIV positive nurse at St. Stephen's Hospital now Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Over lunch at David's flat which I was helping the family sell and sitting the flat while it was being sold, over lunch we came up with the name "Positively Healthy" and decided we were going to prevent all the deaths we could. We have never deviated from that path. Dietmar died a few years later but Dietmar died of tremendous loneliness. He was very lonely, isolated, approaching 40, that dangerous age. Although he did die of AIDS, it was loneliness that he confessed to me he said life isn't worth living, he said "I don't want to carry on". So a lot of people have come and gone at the charity since then. We have had a lot of attention in the medical community. We've had our first band of trustees who were medical doctors, Dr. Simon Mansfield, Dr. Adrian Moss at Chelsea and Westminster were two of them for instance and a lot of nurses. I taught for the Royal College of Nursing. I taught the English Nursing Board AIDS Awareness 934 Course, and I still do for many years. And our ethos from the very beginning was that our charity Positively Healthy would pay no salaries, would be run by its service users, no one would be parachuted in to manage the charity, everyone who managed the charity would come up from the people who benefited from the services. Twenty-three years later the charity hasn't changed. The charity is run by its beneficiaries. It is completely not for profit. All our funding comes from either other charities or the Primary Care Trust and the National Health Service or from our local council which is Richmond Council. This year for the first time in many years we had a fund raising event done for us by the medical students at Imperial College in London and they raised a substantial amount for us. But everything we raise goes back into service provision. No one makes a living out of this. Every penny we get is plowed back into running the charity. Any gay man who wants can phone us up or email us, in fact most of our communication is email these days. We will get back within 24 hours and set up a program for them as to what they want to do. We provide face to face, one-to-ones, workshops, and if we can't provide a direct service we will direct them to somewhere where the service can be provided. So we don't, no one profits from what we do. And I would love to close the charity down tomorrow. I would love to find there was no longer a need for it. Unfortunately there still is. I honestly thought in 1986 when we created Positively Healthy we had maybe a ten year shelf life, that we'd sorted out the epidemic by then, and we probably could have. The drugs came in. But I find twenty-three years later that the need is still there and there's more people, more gay men getting infected and I find this intolerable and unbelievable.