Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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We’re proud to announce the addition of another positive advocate – and one with a real talent for expressing himself. Phil’s fantastic new piece for us, about his experience of being diagnosed and then living with HIV, can be read in our Positive People section here. It’s a must read, particularly since Phil’s a great…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, has published again at the Huffington Post: I’ve been fortunate enough in my medical career to see real improvements in the treatment options we can offer our HIV positive patients. In the early 1980s we didn’t even have a name for HIV; now we have a wide range of…
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We’re delighted that Tyler Curry, writer and ‘intellectual vagabond’, has agreed to featured on our Positive People pages. We’re honoured to have so many inspiring individuals living with HIV agree to become advocates for our charity, and Tyler’s story – which you can now read here – is fantastic. Tyler maintains a regular blog at the Huffington…
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Over on Twitter, we’re getting Chrismassy with a festive competition: just tweet us @SavingLivesUK, or visit us on Facebook with a caption for this photo, taken on the streets of Birmingham where our Saving Lives Avengers ads are currently running – and the best one will get a prize!
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The Stand Tall Get Snapped project is a fantastic photography exhibition which documents the lives of 30 people living with HIV. Many of them featured on our own Positive People pages, and you can read more here. Edo and the rest of the team behind the project have been attracting a lot of much-deserved attention…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, has begun a regular blog at the Huffington Post’s UK edition with a piece on how stigma can still kill: One of my patients said to me recently: “When I was young I had unprotected sex a few times, so did my friends. Unfortunately it was me who became…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, appeared on BBC News 24 on December 1st, World AIDS Day, discussing the current HIV situation both in the UK and worldwide. You can watch the report that preceded his interview as well as his remarks below: We also featured on both Radio 4 and Radio 5, recordings of…
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Saving Lives hit the airwaves today to help the BBC mark World AIDS Day 2012. Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, featured on both BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and on BBC 5 Live Breakfast – where he was also joined by Saving Lives positive advocate, Katie. You can listen to both segments below. BBC…
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Thanks to Aston Villa FC for their support this National HIV Testing Week: Villa players have lent their support to Saving Lives, a national HIV awareness charity based in Birmingham. Saving Lives are attempting to improve the health of the public and the players are helping to spread the message to fans. “There are about…
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Stand Tall, Get Snapped is a fantastic project which documents the lives of people living with HIV today – and encourages proud and public advocacy. Thanks to Ed and everyone else at the project for allowing us to include some of the fantastic stories that have been recorded by them on our Positive People page –…