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A fact from Anne Bayley appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 October 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Anne Bayley's clinical research in Zambia showed that, contrary to widespread opinion in the early 1980s, HIV could be spread through heterosexual sex?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anne Bayley.

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The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath talk 10:27, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Anne Bayley's clinical research in Zambia showed, contrary to widespread opinion in the early 1980s, that HIV could be spread through heterosexual sex?

Source: Providing two medical journal sources: "Bayley realised that HIV was the underlying problem in her patients with aggressive Kaposi’s sarcoma, which she thought implied heterosexual transmission. Not everyone agreed, convinced that it was spread by sex between men.... Bayley’s clinical reports resulted in the US Centers for Disease Control sending a team to Lusaka, leading to the recognition of heterosexual transmission of HIV." British Medical Journal, https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1136/bmj.r574 "In the early 1980's AIDS was thought only to be transmitted by men to men, or through blood transfusion, as in the Western world it was initially most prevalent in the gay community. However, in the mid 1980's, prompted by Bayley's clinical reports, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) sent a team to work in Lusaka, and this collaboration resulted in a publication recognising the herterosexual transmission of HIV." World Journal of Surgery, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-023-07022-4

ALT1: ... that Anne Bayley became a physician in the 1950s because she was not allowed to become a priest? Source: "From an early age she wanted to be a priest, but it was not then an option for women; so she chose medicine." Church Times, https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/28-march/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-revd-professor-anne-bayley "Throughout her life Bayley was a committed Christian, first experiencing a call to priesthood as a young woman, which she was unable to follow as women could not be ordained at that time. Instead, she studied medicine at Girton College, Cambridge, followed by clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1958." British Medical Journal, https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1136/bmj.r574
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Li Gang (politician, born 1965)

Created by Dclemens1971 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:10, 21 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Long enough, new enough, well sourced, neutral, QPQ completed, and Earwig and I see no evidence of plagiarism. I really enjoyed reading this one, great work! ALT0 is definitely my favourite, as someone who enjoys medical history, but ALT1 is also interesting. Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 10:11, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. – actuall7 (talk | contrib) 01:13, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominator: Dclemens1971 (talk · contribs) 18:40, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Actuall7 (talk · contribs) 07:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'd like to review this article. Please expect my review soon. – actuall7 (talk | contrib) 07:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No images in the article, which while not a requirement, is a shame. Would maybe recommend a non-free image?
Earwig gives low 13.8% copyvio probability.
Per WP:OL, would remove links to Zambia and Uganda.
Would add the date she received the OBE in the lede.
Per MOS:GEOCOMMA, should be in Accra, Ghana, from.
Would link Kaposi's sarcoma, surrogacy, and the University of Zambia School of Medicine in the body.
In the link to the British Medical Journal, would not include the "the" as part of the link.
Christian from early age -> Wording is awkward, would rather Christian from her youth.
she and colleagues -> she and her colleagues
The list of books she published could be put in its own "Bibliography" or "Selected publications" section.
Source review as per this revision:

[1]: Would clarify that this source requires a subscription.
[2] N: Source states her birthdate is 31 May, not 1 June.
[3] N:

[3]d: she observed a doubling in new cases of KS, including three women, and with 13 (about half) of the patients -> Source states that the three women were a part of the 13 with more aggressive symptoms, not that there were three women in the total 23 patients.
[3]h: developing resources to help churches in Zambia and Malawi prevent HIV transmission within marriages -> This is not in the source.
Additionally, this source states she died on January 1, not December 31. Which date is correct?

[4] Y
[5] Y
[6] Y

@Dclemens1971: These are all the issues I found, nice work. – actuall7 (talk | contrib) 05:10, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Actuall7 Thanks for the review! Comments follow:

I wish there were images and believe me I searched! Added a photo of the Zambia medical school.
Links removed/added as requested, except for surrogacy, since the source uses the term but it seems in a colloquial sense rather than the technical sense that she delivered the baby in the customary modern usage of "surrogacy" (the source says the girl was 8). It seems instead that she was a sort of adoptive mother but there's no evidence in the sources that an adoption took place, so I am sticking with the language in the source.
Word choices adjusted as requested.
Bibliography added.
Source review:

Done
Weird that I got the birth date wrong! Corrected.
Fixed as re: 3(d), and the Church Times sourced added re: 3(h). Re: death date, there are two reliable sources that give her death date as 31 Dec ([1], [2]) and one source that gives 1 Jan. I went with the majority of RS on this question.

Thanks again and let me know if you'd like to see anything else. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:14, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response, changes look good. Happy to pass! – actuall7 (talk | contrib) 01:13, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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