Author: Saving Lives
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Saving Lives is proud to be convening a community-wide World AIDS Day event in the Black Country for 2026, in partnership with local people who are living with the virus. The all-day event will take place at West Bromwich Central Library on World AIDS Day, December 1st. It will include a community marketplace for all…
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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 Theatre, the city will unveil a memorial like no other. Two intertwined heart-shaped red ribbons – one rusted, one gloss – represent those lost to…
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So, this is it – the final blog. And if I don’t start it pronto, two things are likely to happen. First, the opportunity for you to be persuaded by my chit-chat and pictures to see the win-win situation of stepping back from your mainstream career and ‘volunteering’ for a short but unforgettable time in…
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So, the time has come to wind up in earnest, something that the friendly blog-posters at Green Shoots Foundation (Muneezay) and Saving lives UK (Daniel) will be delighted to hear as, like the proverbial tale of waiting all day for a bus, my blog missives tend to come three at a time which is a…
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Having just started the process of packing to return to freezing Manchester forever, I have come to realise just how much suitcase-defying junk a man left to his own devices can accumulate in a mere two years. Many of my clothes should be going directly to the clinics for obviously there’s is the greatest need.…
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Well, what a month this has been! Even though my days are nowhere near over yet, they are now numbered, and I must muster one determined effort to create the last three weeks of blogs of two truly remarkable and unforgettable years and sign-off Myanmar-style for the last time. As usual they are super-late, super-frenetic,…
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For all I know you might be redirecting this straight into your spam folder but, for those with a filial responsibility to make certain they’re kept in the inheritance game, it’s your lottery-ticket winning day and you have another blog. That pitch is only relevant if this is winging its way to you by e-mail…
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Well, here goes with the latest in a slew of blogs culling my back log of posts, albeit I’m certain any obsessive professional blogger would regard this as a couple too many for a peaceful night’s snoozing. But to me, it’s job well done for now as any more would test a thinking human’s patience,…
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As is my wont and your experience, your eternal wait (fat chance in reality) for a blog brings an incredible flurry of three in as many weeks, and this is the second epistle of the testament, both in terms of biblical reference and to what I believe is my extraordinary post-retirement jobbing doctor’s life in…
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So herewith the first of another super-late series of epistles charting a smattering of my fondest moments, both significant and trivial, from the archival footage of the 5 weeks of blogs that have somehow got misplaced lest they be forgotten in the deep recesses of my rapidly involuting grey cells. And as I start this…