Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Narcotics Control and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Departments: Registered Files (NC Series)

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Reference: FCO 183
Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Narcotics Control and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Departments: Registered Files (NC Series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office policy on the use of illegal drugs and the global response to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Files on AIDS policy include; organisation of conferences and international events, the participation of UK ministers in the forementioned events; welfare of British nationals affected by AIDS, immigration policy with regards to AIDS, and bilateral relations on AIDS

Date: 1987
Arrangement:

The records are arranged as either AIDS or Drugs material, and further by subject according to the FCO corporate file plan
Related material:

This series complements records created by the FCO United Nations Department who pre 1987 were the department responsible for FCO policy on AIDS and illegal drug use.

FCO 58
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: NC prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Narcotics and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Unit, 1987-1988
Physical description: 128 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2022 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Accruals: This series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Narcotics Control and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Unit was established in 1987 in response to the global AIDS crisis. The Unit changed its name in 1988 to the Narcotics Control and Acquired Immune Deficiency (AIDS) Department in 1988. FCO policy on both AIDS and use of illegal drugs had previously been administered by the United Nations Department.

Following the global response to the AIDS crisis the FCO created a separate department to manage policies on AIDS and the use of illegal drugs. In 1994 the responsibility for FCO policy on the global use of illegal drugs was transferred to the Drugs, International Crime and Terrorism Department. The responsibility for FCO policy on AIDS returned to the United Nations Department.

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