Promoting HIV Testing Week with Powerful Student Art
This week is National HIV Testing Week. Using creativity for the good of the community, Saving Lives has been proud to support Garry Jones, designer of the Birmingham AIDS &…
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Achieving Equitable Care for People Living with HIV
'Peter' from Walsall feels let down by care he received as a person living with HIV. https://youtu.be/n2HlVw3C_Eg In this piece for ITV News, 'Peter' - from Walsall - speaks about…
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Saving Lives on the BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AdA59perfk It was great to have our work featured on BBC Midlands Today for World AIDS Day, and especially to have the opportunity to send the message that HIV testing…
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“Trail-blazing” Collaboration Sees Whole City Come Together To Help Eliminate HIV
Local government, the NHS and charities are joining forces in a trail-blazing collaboration to mark this year’s World AIDS Day Birmingham – and the teamwork could point towards achieving the…
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Ten Things You Need To Know About HIV on World AIDS Day 2023
It's 2023. The ways in which HIV affects those who live with the virus has changed - and we all need to catch up. At Saving Lives, we're committed to…
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Saving Lives Welcomes Government Funding for Opt-Out HIV Testing
Saving Lives strongly welcomes the government’s decision to fund opt-out A&E HIV and Hepatitis testing in high-prevalence areas across England. This intervention will significantly improve detection rates of HIV, and…
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You Before Two Receives PSHE Association Quality Mark
The You Before Two video series that has been sponsored and supported by Saving Lives received fantastic news today: its Contraception Choices lesson pack has been award the PSHE Association's…
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Newly Diagnosed Online Workshops
Being diagnosed with HIV can be a difficult moment. Today's life-saving treatments mean that those living with HIV can live full, normal lives - but the stigma, historical assumptions and…
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Saving Lives Ambassador Featured by National AIDS Trust
On the National AIDS Trust's World AIDS Day website, there's an interview with Garry Jones, Saving Lives ambassador and lead designer of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial, which DSaving…
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Birmingham Opt-Out Testing Symposium with Andy Street
A symposium on opt-out testing was hosted with Andy Street in central Birmingham last week, with figures from government, the NHS and charities uniting to emphasise the importance of default…
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Saving Lives Working With UKHSA
Saving Lives is very proud to say we continue to work with the UK Health Security Agency and the Royal College of General Practitioners on their UK-wide respiratory surveillance programme.…
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England on track to end new HIV transmissions by 2030?
This is hopeful news from the UK Government: New HIV transmissions in England have fallen by almost a third since 2019, while fewer people remain unaware of their HIV status as a result of…
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Birmingham Pride
Wonderful to see such fantastic coverage of Birmingham Pride on the BBC - Saving Lives attended, providing testing information support, and most importantly the brand new Birmingham AIDS & HIV…
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More Exhibitions for Cover Up Quilts
This month, our Arts Council England-funded Cover Up project has been exhibiting the quilts produced by its participants in both Birmingham's Hippodrome and Jubilee Centre. What has been most rewarding…
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Cover Up Quilts Exhibition
As part of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial project, Saving Lives has been supported local artists, schools and craft groups to produce a range of quilts that chart the…
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National HIV Testing Week 2023
Saving Lives has been very happy to supply the testing services to this year's National HIV Testing Week activity in Birmingham. Flying under the collective banned of Fast Track Cities…
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What Fast Track Cities Means To Us
Saving Lives is extremely proud that its home city of Birmingham signed up as part of the Fast Track Cities initiative last year. This UNAIDS project enables cities to declare…
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The Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial Unveiled
World AIDS Day was extra-special in Birmingham yesterday, as hundreds of people arrived in front of the city's iconic Hippodrome Theatre to witness the unveiling of the UK's largest memorial…
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Left out of ‘opt out’ HIV testing won’t do
The West Midlands Mayor calls for funding and action from the new Health Secretary This World AIDS Day the West Midlands get a remarkable new addition. Outside the Birmingham Hippodrome…
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World AIDS Day 2022: The Ribbons, Saving Lives & The Future
Every World AIDS Day is a special opportunity to remember and respect those we have loved and lost to HIV/AIDS, and to appreciate how far we’ve come in the last…
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Fast Track Cities Birmingham & Saving Lives
Saving Lives is extremely proud to be attending Birmingham's Fast Track Cities+ launch event this evening. Dr Steve Taylor, our Medical Director - and Clinical Lead of the city's FTC+…
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Saving Lives UK statement on Monkeypox outbreak
In the past few days we have received messages from members of the public who have been understandably worried about the current and evolving Monkeypox virus outbreak, particularly given the…
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New Video Series for Schools Launched
Today sees the launch of a truly exciting new course of sex education videos for schools, starring Saving Lives' own Naomi Sutton and GP Becky Foljambe. Saving Lives has been…
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Saving Lives Students at the National
The student arm of Saving Lives, based at the University of Birmingham's Medical School, recently attended a production of Larry Kramer's 1985 play, The Normal Heart, at the National Theatre in…
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Saving Lives charity donates £3000 to Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial
Birmingham based HIV charity, Saving Lives UK, marks World AIDS Day 2021 by donating £3,000 towards the building of Birmingham's AIDS & HIV memorial. Saving Lives UK has been a…
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Saving Lives launches ‘Grassroots Grants 2021’
Grassroots Grants: UK HIV and sexual health charity to offer grants to grassroots organisations that work to improve the lives of people living with, or affected by, HIV. Saving Lives,…
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It’s A Sin: A Tale of Two Viruses
Three things have happened to me in the last two weeks which have given me real food for thought. First, as an HIV specialist consultant, I found myself redeployed to…
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Saving Lives at the University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham branch of Saving Lives UK is a medical student led group set up back in 2018. Our goal is to work alongside the national Saving Lives…
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HIV Commission report sets out recommendations for HIV Zero by 2030
The HIV Commission for England have today, on World AIDS Day 2020, published their report which sets out 20 recommendations to get England to zero new HIV infections by 2030.…
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Saving Lives announces winners of Grassroots Grants programme
UK based HIV and sexual health charity, announce the winners of their 'Grassroots Grants' programme. Saving Lives, the UK-based HIV and sexual health charity known for its innovative home sampling…
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ARCHIVED: Saving Lives Launches ‘Grassroots Grants’
Grassroots Grants: UK HIV and sexual health charity to offer grants to grassroots organisations that work to improve the lives of people living with, or affected by, HIV. Saving Lives,…
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Saving Lives joins calls for a national sexual health strategy
Charities, including the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH) and the Terrence Higgins Trust, have called on the Government to implement a new sexual health strategy to combat…
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HIV charity calls for renewed focus on late diagnoses and those outside London
The Saving Lives charity has welcomed the latest HIV data from Public Health England and is calling for a renewed focus on tackling both late diagnoses and undiagnosed populations outside…
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Meet the Positive People standing up to stigma this World AIDS Day
This World AIDS Day, December 1st, Positive People everywhere are standing up and asking that everyone join them in making a pledge to stamp out HIV related stigma. Continuing stigma…
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World AIDS Day & Football Saving Lives
December 1st is World AIDS Day. Our aim is to get to Zero New infections by 2030 However, in order to do this, we need to stamp out: HIV-related STIGMA Stops people getting tested It…
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Congratulations to Wales and Saving Lives Ambassadors!
The Welsh national football team were victorious in their Euro 2020 qualifier with Hungary tonight, meaning they have qualified for the tournament, to be held in twelve cities across the…
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