Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Football Saving Lives ambassador Nathan Redmond made his full England debut this evening, playing in the England Under-21s side against Italy. He was joined by fellow ambassador Jack Butland – both did some great work, congratulations!
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With great sadness we must report that, on Friday 31st May, one of our founding Saving Lives ambassadors, Peter Kamara, died whilst undergoing liver transplant. We have known Peter since 2006, when he was diagnosed, very late, with both HIV and Hepatitis-B. Peter responded extremely well to HIV treatment. But unfortunately he was discovered to…
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Dr Sophie Flavell, the sexual health doctor spearheading today’s Saving Lives-supported effort to bring dry spot blood testing to Birmingham Pride, was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio WM’s Mollie Green programme. You can hear the interview – and learn more about blood-born viruses, spot testing, and how to access testing today or any time…
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Sexual health experts from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust will be doing their rounds at this year’s Birmingham Pride at the weekend, to offer free and confidential finger-prick tests for hepatitis-B, hepatitis-C and HIV. Staff fromBirminghamHeartlandsHospitalwill be working alongside the city-wide community sexual health service, Healthy Gay Life, to deliver HIV, hepatitis-B and…
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Nottingham-born world champion boxer Carl Froch is supporting a new HIV awareness campaign in the city. Froch is supporting the national charity Saving Lives, which has joined forces withNottinghamdoctors to bring a clear message to the public: HIV testing saves lives. Posters and leaflets featuring images of Froch and other athletes, including Premiership footballers and…
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Football Saving Lives ambassador Jack Butland recently spoke to Zip magazine about his career, his ambitions … and Saving Lives! We’re proud to have a player like Jack so full behind our campaign – so thanks to him for wearing our colours. You can read about the interview in Zip’s latest issue here.
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We’re attending the 19th annual conference of the British HIV Association in Manchester this week, having some great conversations with colleagues and friends about how to raise HIV testing awareness even higher in the coming year. We have a stand in the Exhibition Hall, so if you’re in Manchester for the conference at any point,…
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Fantastic to see more great coverage of our current joint campaign with The Royal London Hospital, this time in the Daily Mail: The screening programme is being part-organised by HIV awareness charity Saving Lives, which is running a campaign called the Saving Lives Avengers. The initiative aims to use well-known sports personalities to educate people…
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Very exciting to see news of our latest campaign on the official Carl Froch versus Mikkel Kessler website: You can read the full story here.
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Great news in the East London Advertiser of a campaign featuring the Saving Lives Avengers: Tests for HIV are to be offered to patients walking into the Accident & Emergency department at the Royal London Hospital. A new scheme is being piloted offering routine testing to give anyone found to be ‘positive’ the earliest possible medical treatment.…