THE Advisory Service on Aids was funded by the DHSS for the health departments of the UK to provide free and confidential advice for listeners to the BBC national radio Aids campaign on radios 1, 2, & 4 in December 1986. The service was expanded and re-opened in January 1987 to offer the same free and confidential advice and support the DHSS leaflet Aids — Don't Die of Ignorance and the BBC's local radio campaign.