A former nurse from Oxford is part of a major campaign to stop the spread of HIV and Aids in the developing world by 2015.

Fiona Perry is the HIV/ Aids coordinator for the charity Tearfund, as part of disaster management team based in Nairobi, Kenya.

She works in north and south Sudan, northern Kenya, Congo, Liberia and Afghan- istan.

Miss Perry, 37, who used to work at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, is a member of St Andrew's Church, North Oxford.

Relief and development agency Tearfund aims to raise £60m for HIV and Aids-related work by 2015 with its Work a Miracle Campaign.

The campaign aims to provide drugs and prevention techniques to stop babies being infected.

Miss Perry's role involves travelling to countries to raise awareness of and ways to deal with HIV and Aids.

She said: "HIV can't be thought of as just a health problem, as it is affected by things like gender inequalities, poverty and culture.

"We're reshaping our core projects, such as nutrition, food security and shelter, to reduce people's vulnerability towards HIV."

Miss Perry spent two years in a mission hospital in Niger, then attended All Nations Bible College in Hertfordshire, before working for Tearfund in Kosovo.

She said: "Since then I have continued to work for Tearfund in health education for the past six years in various roles in Northern Kenya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Southern Sudan.

"I travelled around the world for two years before I trained as a nurse.

"However, I never felt very comfortable as a tourist, and used my nursing as a way to address some of the needs that I had seen on my travels.

"I did my Masters in London and wrote my thesis on the impact of Aids on orphans. This was when I really got a heart for HIV and Aids work."

For more information about the campaign, log on at www.tearfund.org.uk