Sir Nicholas Wyndham Partridge, OBE, is a leading British

United Kingdom

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 health care and HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

/AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 care activist.

Activism

He has worked for the Terrence Higgins Trust

Terrence Higgins Trust

Terrence Higgins Trust is a British charity that campaigns on various issues related to AIDS and HIV. In particular, the charity aims to reduce the spread of HIV and promote good sexual health ; to provide services on a national and local level to people with, affected by, or at risk of...

 in the UK since 1985 when he started in the postroom, subsequently working his way to become Chief Executive in 1991. He has been a consistent voice in the media coverage of AIDS in all its aspects from health promotion, social care and advocacy to treatment issues.

He is also Chair of Involve

INVOLVE (UK National Advisory group)

INVOLVE is a national advisory Group, funded by the Department of Health, that promotes public involvement in health and social care research. Established in 1996, it was originally called "Consumers in NHS Research". It expanded to cover public health and social care research in 2001, and...

, an advisory group promoting public involvement in NHS

National Health Service

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, public health and social care research.

Honours

In 1999 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his contribution to the charitable sector and was appointed a Commissioner of the Commission for Health Improvement. Partridge was knighted

Knight Bachelor

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 in the 2009 New Year Honours.

In 2006, he was declared one the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain by the Independent

The Independent

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;and in 2010 was ranked 75th (rising from 89th the previous year) in the same list.