Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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An amazing performance last night from the England Women’s Football team, including several of Saving Lives’s own ambassadors! Here’s the BBC’s take: England finished their Women’s World Cup qualifying campaign with a 100% record as forward Eni Aluko’s hat-trick helped secure an emphatic 10-0 win against Montenegro. Mark Sampson’s team showed the ruthless streak the…
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Last week saw Saving Lives ambassdor Fabian Delph’s debut for the England senior side – and he’s been receiving a lot of plaudits for his performance. The Metro noted that, “the younger Yorkshireman enhanced his growing reputation with a very tidy display indeed”; the Telegraph’s Henry Winter observed that, “Fabian Delph a definite positive for…
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<img src=”http://www.savinglivesuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140723-121538-44138166.jpg” alt=”20140723-121538-44138166.jpg” class=”aligncenter” width=”500″ /> Saving Lives is dedicated to raising awareness of HIV, HIV testing – and the challenges we face in diagnosing, treating and stopping the spread of HIV. Few events can provide as many headlines that achieve that aim, surely, than a former US president addressing the world’s leading HIV conference.…
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The news that Joep Lange, one of the HIV community’s leading researchers and a former president of the International AIDS Society, was aboard flight MH17, lost with everyone aboard in eastern Ukraine yesterday, is truly terrible. Original reports also suggested that up to one hundred delegates of the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne were also on the…
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The British HIV Association, in co-operation with the National Institute for Health Research and Public Health England, is asking people living with HIV to fill out a survey on the subject of HIV cure research. The survey is designed to understand: your current views on HIV cure research whether you might take part in studies…
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Saving Lives has teamed up with Brook, Terrence Higgins Trust, and the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in a bid to provide sexual health services across Birmingham. The unique bid, which sees NHS doctors team up with charities to offer comprehensive sexual health provision to all of Birmingham and Solihull, has been made to…
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“Using smartphone apps to seek out partners for casual sex poses an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, researchers warn.” Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, is quoted in this BBC piece about the dangers of so-called ‘sex apps’: “This is definitely something we are seeing in our sexual health and HIV clinics, both among…
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We’re extremely proud to be sponsoring the University of Leeds’ 2014 Fine Art Degree Show. The quality of work on show is extremely high, as can be seen on our Arts homepage – and on the show’s website itself, too. Leeds have been kind enough to give us pride of place in their degree show…
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On Saturday 24th May 2014, Healthy Gay Life (HGL), Saving Lives, and Sexual Health Services from Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust set out in the pouring rain to deliver sexual health testing at one of the biggest events of the year in the gay community, Birmingham Gay Pride 2014. 23 staff members of HEFT’s…
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One of our most prominent supporters and ambassadors, IBF and WBA super-middleweight champion Carl Froch, has a big fight planned for this weekend: he is defending both his titles Froch in a rematch against George Groves in front of a record 80,000 crowd at Wembley. The rematch comes after a fight against Groves in November. Carl…