Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Our positive advocates are people living with HIV who help us devise and deliver the right awareness messages to the public. Chris Kearl has been living with HIV since the infections earliest days, and has a moving story to tell about the difficult days of the 1980s, the improvement in treatment, the continued problem of…
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Big congratulations our Football Saving Lives advocate, Kerys Harrop, who has been called up for the England team for the first time. According to BBC Sport: Coach Hope Powell said: “Kerys has done well with the under-23s and we have been monitoring her for a while.” Harrop, 22, was a part of the Birmingham side…
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On Monday 4 March, the world awoke to a media storm: news was buzzing around the world that a Mississippi baby had been cured of HIV. We were soon bombarded with a flurry of media reports about how this case was set to change the HIV treatment paradigm, prevent babies from being infected, and, to…
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The case of the baby who has been apparently cured of HIV has been appearing in headlines across the world. We thought it would be a good idea to provide some resources about this case which might help explain and contextualise it. Below, we have a video with the author of the original study, some…
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Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children living with the virus that causes AIDS. The data is being presented at CROI today at 11.30 am – and our Medical Director, HIV…
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At the Huffington Post, Dr Steve Taylor, Medical Director of Saving Lives, writes: I believe the NHS provides a gold standard service of care to our HIV patients. Yes, I also admit we are likely not the cheapest service there is – but the NHS is about patients, about quality, and about care. It’s about…
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James is currently our featured advocate in our Positive People section. His story includes the classic symptoms of a ‘seroconversion illness’, the sickness people often experience shortly after being infected with HIV, but can mistake for the ‘flu. Missing the seroconversion illness, and not getting the test early as James did, can result in not…
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Dr Steve Taylor, Medical Director of Saving Lives, has written on Huffington Post about the ongoing debates around home testing for HIV: In the course of my medical life, I’ve overheard many people ask their friends the question, “Have you had an HIV test?” “No,” comes the common reply. “I know I should, but I…
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Sport Saving Lives advocate – and Saving Lives Avenger – Sally Walton was a guest on this morning’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme. She discussed age, women and sport with John Humphries. Listen below!
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Joan is currently our featured advocate on the Positive People page. You can listen to an interview with her, and also read her story. I’m still uncertain as to when I contracted HIV. I’m in a long-term, loving marriage and am far from the stereotype people may have in their minds about ‘the sort of…