Councillor Thomas's pride story

“For 40 years George House Trust has been a social conscience of our city in ensuring how we as Mancunians come together to support each other and members of our communities diagnosed with HIV. My role as the political lead on the Greater Manchester Fast Track Cities Board and as the Executive Councillor for Healthy Manchester and Adult Social Care – is to ensure whether it’s the Government, the NHS or the Council that there’s no door that remains shut when George House Trust comes knocking.

When we come together as a city and a city region, that’s when we’ve advanced the furthest. Opt out testing across our hospitals, mandatory awareness training are impacting in ways we once never thought possible. But its these final yards now, in the goal of ending new diagnosis’s by 2030 where we are going to be pushed the hardest – 

but I know that we will do it together, and I promise to continue to play my part in supporting George House Trust every step of the way as we approach 2030. Together we can achieve it.

So that is my story. What’s yours?”