Mags Portman campaigned for HIV-testing points in saunas, bars, churches, festivals. Awareness was everything
man Mags Portman had come to meet that day in 2015, in a wine bar near her clinic in the Mortimer Market Centre in London, was clearly nervous. He seemed lost; he was homeless and sofa-surfing. So in her bright Yorkshire way she came straight to the point: “What can I do?”EP
, which could have prevented his now-incurable infection. It couldn’t be prescribed in Britain. So he had built a website so that others like him, men having sex with men and hoping to stay safe, could click through to getfrom pharmacies in Asia. But now traffic to the website was growing fast, he told her, and he wasn’t sure whether it was legal to skirt round the doctors like this. He needed backing from someone in the profession who was credible and visible.
She then took off like a whirlwind. First stop was the General Medical Council, the governing body of doctors, which told her—hallelujah!—that clinicians had a responsibility to get the best treatment for their patients, even if it was not commissioned. With that under her belt, she started testing the generic pills coming in via the Iwantnow website, to check there were no dummies and to quell her own professional doubts about safety.
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