Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
-
We’ll be out and about this weekend at Birmingham Pride. Look out for Saving Lives t-shirt, but also for volunteers from our partners at Sexual Health Birmingham, Heartlands HIV Service, Healthy Gay Life, Be Sure and more! Record-breaking crowds are expected at this year’s event, and we’ll be helping promote sexual health, HIV testing, hepatitis testing and more. It’s all…
-
England’s U-21 football side are within touching distance for Euro 2015 qualification, thanks in large part to Saving Lives ambassador Nathan Redmond’s hat-trick against Wales last night. Nathan is interviewed about the game on the FA website here: Nathan Redmond might have hit the headlines with his goals against Wales on Monday night, but the…
-
We have worked extensively with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, promoting HIV testing in several contexts across their hospitals, especially the Royal London. That’s why we’re particularly interested in an item of short correspondence appearing in this week’s Lancet. Based around opt-out testing for all patients in critical care, it’s a fascinating piece of work…
-
The FA WSL season began yesterday, featuring many of our ambassadors, advocates and supporters. We’ll be keeping a keen eye on the whole league this season, since we enjoy the support of players from most of the league’s top clubs, including Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Birmingham, Everton, Bristol and more. Read more about our women’s…
-
It is with a truly heavy heart that we report the death of one of our founding patrons, Dr Charles Farthing. We only recently saw Charles at CROI in Boston, and the extremely sad news of his passing has come as a shock to all who knew him. In an email sharing the news, Merck’s…
-
Saving Lives volunteer, Dr Mags Portman, has recently had a rapid response to the BMJ published in the journal proper. The article, entitled Routinely test for HIV in everyone presenting with unexplained lymphopenia, appeared on April 3rd and can be read here. This is superb news for Mags, but also for anyone passionate about HIV…
-
Fantastic news for England Ladies and for Saving Lives ambassador Toni Duggan in particular: Toni Duggan scored a hat-trick as England sauntered to a 9-0 victory over Montenegro in Mark Sampson’s first home match in charge, cementing their place at the top of World Cup qualifying Group 6. The Manchester City striker started the rout in the…
-
For International Women’s Day, we’d like to recognise and promote the contribution of all our female ambassadors and advocates. Thank you to each of you, and here’s to ever greater contributions from and equality for women across the world, both living with HIV and otherwise. Abby “I don’t think we could have managed to…
-
Birmingham City defender Jonathan Spector, and captain Paul Robinson, featured in our National HIV Testing Week 2013 campaign (you can see the Birmingham City educational booklet here), and continue to act as ambassadors for Saving Lives. In this video, they talk about why they support the charity – and about the facts around HIV.
-
This week sees the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections take place in the US city of Boston. Many of our international advisers will be attending, as will our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor. Throughout the conference, scientists will be presenting data on the latest HIV research, testing and diagnoses. Click here for further details. Our…