Scottish AIDS Monitor

[3] Ogg served as Chair of Board, other board members included McGough, Cook, Taylor, Joy Barlow, and Alistair Hume,[4][5] Maureen Moore served as SAM's Chief Executive,[6] Steve Retson was Strathclyde Projects Manager,[7] Paul Trainer worked as Edinburgh administrator[8] and Eric Kay was Gay Outreach Worker for Strathclyde.

[10] Maureen Moore resigned as Chief Executive in 1995[11] and went on to establish Project for HIV and Aids Care and Education (PHACE West).

[4] Initially SAM focused on raising awareness of AIDS and promoting safe sex among gay men, but the organisation expanded its activities to include all groups affected by HIV and AIDS, including homosexuals, heterosexuals, teenagers, drug users, sex workers and prison inmates.

[8] The organisation worked with the Genito Urinary Medicine unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in order to ensure the information they provided was accurate and up to date.

[14] They also ran AIDS information phone lines in both Glasgow and Edinburgh,[9] worked with drug counselling agencies,[9] promoted safe sex and distributed free condoms.