Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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An excellent piece by Cath Mackie featured on today’s BBC Midlands Today regional news programme, focusing on our campaign and featuring our founding Football Saving Lives ambassador, Matt Murray: Health experts in the West Midlands are calling for testing for HIV to be offered routinely by GPs and hospitals. More than 5,000 people in the…
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Wolverhampton Wanderers and players Sam Ricketts, Wayne Hennessey, Danny Batth, Razak Boukari and more are supporting our National HIV Testing Week campaign. You can read the Wolves-themed educational booklet here, and look at the fantastic story the club have published in their match day programme for us by clicking the image to the right. Huge…
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Last night, two of our Saving Lives positive advocates, along with medical Director Dr Steve Taylor, appeared on the Graham Torrington show on BBC Radio WM. Anthony and Joan spoke about their experiences of living with HIV – and what they would recommend people listening do about their own sexual health. Dr Steve Taylor interview:…
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Villa captain Ron Vlaar has been joined by several of his team-mates in supporting Saving Lives this National HIV Testing Week. Along with Fabian Delph and Ciaran Clark, he appears in our Aston Villa educational booklet: Ron Vlaar and Fabian Delph are supporting a nationwide campaign to encourage more people to get tested for HIV…
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We’re proud to say that Karl Henry, who now plays for Queens Park Rangers having moved from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer, is still lending us his support at his new club. QPR, too, are promoting our nationwide campaign and the club-specific educational booklet we’ve produced for them: One in five of all those living…
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There’s a superb story on the West Bromwich Albion website, which covers its players’ support of Saving Lives – as well as a visit from the Walsall Centre For Sexual Health, to whose clinics we’re providing posters this National HIV Testing Week: IT’S National HIV Testing Week – and Albion are helping to spread a…
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We’ve been supporting the Royal London Hospital in its effort to make HIV tests routine for some time, so it was great to see them receive superb coverage on Channel 4 News. You can watch the segment below – can you spot the Saving Lives artwork? We’re proud to be supporting such a superb project.
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More great awareness-raising by the country’s football clubs: huge thanks to Sunderland FC, who in addition to promoting our Sunderland FC booklet on their website have helped us achieve some great local exposure in the Sunderland Echo. Here’s part of that newspaper story: SUNDERLAND AFC players are urging people to tackle the issue of HIV. Midfielder…
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Many thanks to Everton Ladies Football Club, which has posted a story about the support shown by their players Toni Duggan, Fern Whelan and Rachel Brown-Finnis to Saving Lives. Our current National HIV Testing Week campaign features an Everton Ladies booklet full of images of the players – many thanks to Everton for promoting it.…
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Football clubs continue to support Saving Lives, and most especially our National HIV Testing Week 2013 campaign: posters and booklets featuring players across the country. Our ambassadors are promoting the importance of HIV testing, and fighting stigma at the same time. At Fulham, Darren Bent and Damien Duff are supporting the campaign, as a news…