Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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On December 3rd, 2011, just two days after World AIDS Day, Aston Villa participated in the Football Saving Lives launch week. The team wore Saving Lives t-shirts during warm-up, and we featured in the day’s match programme. Aston Villa were playing Manchester United that day, giving an international audience to really positive HIV messages. Below…
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Placing HIV awareness messages in the mainstream media has traditionally been difficult for campaigns looking to present the facts to the general public. That’s why we were so excited to see both The Sun and the Daily Express cover the launch of Football Saving Lives this weekend: the Sun, for instance, pictured Aston Villa player…
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Courtesy of AVTV, here’s some great footage from our press conference at Aston Villa with Stiliyan Petrov, as well as some exclusive interviews both with Stiliyan and our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor.
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Dr Steve Taylor, Lead HIV Consultant at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Medical Director of Saving Lives, was interviewed on the BBC News Channel for World AIDS Day. He appeared in the segment alongside musician and HIV awareness campaigner, Annie Lennox.
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Chris Kearl, a positive advocate for Saving Lives, appeared on BBC Midlands Today this evening as part of a story about the launch of the Saving Lives charity and the support of Premier League football clubs in the region. Chris spoke movingly about his thirty years living with HIV, about the importance of early diagnosis…
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Football Saving Lives patron, Stiliyan Petrov, joined with the charity’s Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, to talk to the press today at Aston Villa Football Club’s training ground. During a press conference at Bodymoor Heath, Stiliyan reaffirmed the importance of the Saving Lives message, and how crucial it is that HIV remains in the public…
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The Health Protection Agency has released its annual report into HIV in the UK. The HPA’s work is the best way for us to take the temperature of HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment in this country, and there conclusion is the same as our own: Dr Valerie Delpech of the HPA, a Saving Lives adviser…
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This article from Saturday’s Guardian is well worth a read, featuring Rankin’s new celebrity portraits timed to coincide with the release of the campaigning film, Life In My Shoes. It’s great to see stigma being tackled in so mainstream – and so high-profile – a way. Well done all involved. It is when 18-year-old Blessing…
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Aston Villa captain and Bulgarian international Stiliyan Petrov has agreed to become patron of Football Saving Lives. The HIV awareness campaign, which seeks to educate football fans about the importance of HIV testing, focuses on communicating with an audience often under-exposed to HIV messages. One in four of those with HIV in the UK are…
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The Government last week issued its response to the HIV report produced by Lord Fowler’s committee in July (which you can read here). The document, which has been made available in PDF format by the Department of Health, is 31 pages in length and indicates to some extent the current Government’s position on HIV and…