Annabel Kanabus
Annabel Kanabus (born 1948)[1] is a member of the Sainsbury supermarket family. She set up the charity AVERT and gave £3 million to charity.
Early life
Annabel Kanabus was born Annabel Sainsbury and is the fourth child born to the late Sir Robert Sainsbury and the late Lisa Sainsbury.[1] Her elder brother David is Lord Sainsbury of Turville.[1] Annabel Kanabus went to Benenden boarding school and then to Francis Holland school in London. School holidays were spent at the family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, where, because of her father's art collection, there were Giacometti and Picasso drawings on the walls and a Henry Moore sculpture in the garden.[2] Annabel studied Maths & Physics at the University of East Anglia.
In 1975 Annabel married Peter Kanabus, also a UEA graduate and a miner's son.[3] In 1976 their first son Jason Kanabus was born, followed by Adrian Kanabus in 1978. In 1978 Annabel & Peter Kanabus gave to charity most of Annabel's inherited fortune of £3 million. The money was initially put into a charitable trust, the Bucklebury Trust.[2]
Starting AVERT
Around 1985 Annabel started learning about HIV/AIDS and, along with her husband Peter, decided to set up a charity which they called AVERT. This was an acronym for AIDS Virus Education & Research Trust. Annabel worked as the volunteer chief executive. AVERT initially funded medical research including the first study in the UK on women, HIV and pregnancy.[4] By 1989 AVERT was producing booklets on many different aspects of HIV & AIDS. This included AVERT's AIDS & Young People booklet, which was described as "excellent" by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO sent a copy to the government of every country as an example of good practice in educating young people about HIV & AIDS.[5] In 1989 Annabel & Peter gave AVERT an endowment of £3 million, all the remaining money from the Bucklebury Trust, to fund those projects which it would otherwise be difficult to raise money for. In 1995 the World Wide Web came to the South of England and the first information was put up on www.avert.org for World AIDS Day 1995. In 2005 Annabel Kanabus & avert.org won first prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book Competition.[6]
Speaking out on other health issues
As well as her work on HIV/AIDS, Annabel also spoke out about the need for more funding for medical research generally, as well as the need for better health education.[7][8] She also spoke out against those people who disputed the fact that HIV caused AIDS.[9]
Cancer & HIV drugs
Annabel spent some time away from AVERT in 2006 when her son Jason Kanabus died of cancer. Jason left a large legacy to the Princes Trust and Annabel and her husband were initially unclear as to whether this donation was going to be used correctly. In 2007 Annabel was once more visiting South Africa on behalf of AVERT, and specifically a doctor Colin Pfaff, who wanted to give additional anti HIV drugs to women to prevent their children being born infected with HIV. Annabel arranged for AVERT to buy the drugs and was supported by the South African HIV Clinicians' Society when Colin Pfaff was charged with misconduct.[10]
In 2009 Annabel was diagnosed with the same cancer that had killed her son. Because of her ill health Annabel left AVERT in 2011. But during her time at AVERT she had not only developed an expert knowledge of HIV/AIDS but she had also learnt about and started to speak out about the deadly effects of TB & HIV co-infection and about TB prevention & care in England.[11]
Other health work
In 2014 Annabel became a governor of the UCLH Foundation Trust. A position she still holds. Annabel is also a co-investigator on a research project concerning head & neck cancer which has received an award of £260,302 from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). In January 2019 Annabel spoke about the research and the effect of cancer on her life, at the NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre annual meeting.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Lady Sainsbury - obituary". February 12, 2014 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "EveningStandard The tragic Sainsbury's heir who gave away his millions...just like his mother 20 years before". 2007-05-26. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ↑ Sanderson, Michael (2002). The History of the University of East Anglia Norwich. London: Hambledon and London. Search this book on
- ↑ "House of Commons Social Services Committee Report on the "Problems Associated with AIDS"".
- ↑ "AVERT Annual Report & Accounts 1990".
- ↑ "BMA Festival 2005". doi:10.1080/01405110600916502.
- ↑ Kanabus, Annabel (September 19, 1992). "Effective funding of medical research" (Letter). Letter to The Independent.
- ↑ Kanabus, Annabel (1989). "Health Education in A Time of Adversity". British Medical Journal. 299 (6712): 1398. doi:10.1136/bmj.299.6712.1398-a. JSTOR 29706206. PMC 1838214.
- ↑ Kanabus, Annabel (July 1, 1994). "The Sunday Times's rejection of the connection between HIV and Aids" (Letter). Letter to The Independent.
- ↑ "Mail & Guardian KZN doctor cleared on treatment charge". 2008-02-21.
- ↑ "Health Service Journal When are we going to take TB more seriously in this country?". 2012-10-13.
- ↑ Patients in the spotlight at annual showcase of BRC research
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