Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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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 therefore the health outcomes of those living with the virus. Many people infected with HIV are not aware of their status because they are yet…
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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 Quality Mark. The PSHE Association is the national body for PSHE education, a membership association and charity that supports over 60,000 teachers and schools with…
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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 other factors that still surround the virus can nevertheless lead to the newly diagnosed feeling uncertain and even frightened. That’s why it’s such good news…
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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 Lives sponsored and supported: Garry Jones, 63, is an artist from Birmingham who has been living with HIV since 2006. A community activist for many…
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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 testing for HIV among patients admitted to Accident & Emergency. Turnout alone was suggestive of how important the West Midlands HIV community believe opt-out testing…
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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. We have provided use of our self-sampling system for this purpose since the height of the pandemic, when as part of our contribution to the…
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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 increased testing across the country, according to an update on the HIV Action Plan for England published today. As part of the HIV Action Plan, NHS England is investing £20 million…
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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 Memorial was front and centre!
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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 about these public exhibitions are the conversations that the quilts have generated. From very young children to great-grandparents, the quilts spark questions about the history…