Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives

  • Karen Carney Talks Saving Lives on the BBC

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    Thanks to Karen for agreeing to appearing as part of a feature on BBC Radio WM about Saving Lives, and our work promoting HIV testing through football and sport. And congratulations to her and the team for yesterday’s victory, too! [audio:http://www.savinglivesuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BBCWM%20Football%20SL%20Kaz%20Carney%20.mp3|titles=Karen Carney on BBC WM]  

  • Team GB’s Footballing Women are Saving Lives: 3 Firsts for Team GB!

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    1st Time women’s football is an Olympic event 1st Event of the Olympics 2012 1st New HIV Awareness videos by Women’s Footballers (Great Britain’s women’s football team will play New Zealand in the opening event of the Olympic Games at the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday the 25th July). To view videos of the Team GB advocates, click…

  • Team GB Women’s Football Advocate Videos

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    Our list of footballing advocates has just got longer, with Team GB Olympics women’s football stars making videos for us. Thanks, ladies! Rachel Brown Eniola Aluko Karen Carney Kerys Harrop Rachel Williams Jill Scott & Farra Williamsn

  • HIV Home Test Discussion on the BBC

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    As the BBC reports, HIV home testing kits are expected to be on sale in the USA very soon, following their approval by the country’s Food and Drug Administration. BBC WM’s Graham Torrington asked us onto his show last night to talk about this development. You can use the player above to hear the Medical Director…

  • The Quad Pill and Testing

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    httpv://youtu.be/OpHlANPVuiw Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, offers his comments on the BBC’s story that a new HIV quad pill ‘may improve care’. Other versions of the story can also be seen at ABC News and NetDoctor, and the news is based on the application for approval from Gilead Sciences received by the USA’s Food…

  • Karen Carney Selected for Team GB

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    Fantastic news from Team GB – the women’s football squad has been announced, and our advocate Karen Carney is included! Congratulations, Karen – much deserved! You can read her Q&A with us here.

  • Aviva 2012 Trials

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    Some of our ambassadors and advocates are performing this weekend at the UK Trials: 22-6-12 100 Meter Heats, 17.00 – Julian Thomas 23-6-12  Shot Put Finals, 13.20 – Ros Gonse 1500m Women’s Heats, 14.40 – Hannah England 24-6-12  100m Men’s semi final, 16.52 – JT? 100m Men’s Final, 18.17 – JT? 200m Men’s Heats, 3pm…

  • Congratulations to Chris

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    Many congratulations to Chris Hughton, one of our managerial Football Saving Lives advocates, who has been appointed as the new manager at Norwich. Moving from Birmingham to the Premiership side is an exciting step for Chris, who last managed a top-flight team during his brief stint at Newcastle United. We’re really pleased for Chris –…

  • International Advocates on TV

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    Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, and China Saving Lives advocate, Dr Qingxia Zhao, appeared on BBC television yesterday to talk about the exciting collaboration between the Sixth People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou City and Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham. Our own activities in China dovetail very well with the Heartlands project, and we’ve contributed logistical and media support…

  • HIV Teleconference With China

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    Clinicians from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital’s HIV Service and their counterparts from the Sixth Hospital in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province China, are to take part in the first video conference of its kind on Monday, 28 May. It is the first time doctors from the UK will consult in this way with clinicians in the region…