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Act Up plans direct action against cuts to HIV services

EIGHTIES Aids activists reunited last night to launch a campaign against cuts to HIV services and privatisation of the NHS.

Direct action group Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (Act Up) announced it was to go back into “creative and confrontational street activism” as part of new network We Are Still Angry.

The launch was held at the sold-out London screening of documentary film United in Anger: A History of Act Up.

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