“My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is only one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS - and that is the wife…”

—  Edwina Currie

" Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/mrs-currie-dishes-up-aids-advice-1-2433829", Yorkshire Post (February 13, 1987).

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