Is medicine a human right? Mairi Gordon debates the ethics of pandemics - Comment page 8 1 in 3 HIV positive men in Edinburgh don’t know of their condition - News page 5 • Anger at report which ignores £100 million funding gap SCOTTISH STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2007 • Scottish Government accused of ‘barbaric anti-intellectualism’ “Our economy and society depend on higher education, yet our government invests substantially less than most western coun- tries” Neil Pooran