Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Valerie Delpech is the Health Protection Agency’s Head of HIV Statistics, and also one of our advisers. Our advisers provide key know-how and input which informs our campaigns and messages, as well as offering important advocacy in crucial corners of the HIV world. We’re enormously grateful to Valerie and all our advisers for offering their…
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Tim Deal, who performs under the name ‘The Dealer’, has joined us as a Music Saving Lives advocate. A songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and artist, Tim has written for the likes of Alesha Dixon, The Wanted, Kylie Minogue and The Saturdays (for whom he scored a UK top 3 with ‘All Fired Up’ – their up-coming Arena…
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Emma Brown, an exciting new singing talent based in London, has joined Saving Lives as an advocate. The student at Goldsmith’s University of London is a genre-bending artist with a distinctive style and powerful vocals, and is joining Saving Lives in order to help us communicate our messages ever further afield. An artist partial to…
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It had been 11 days since I first met Sibelo and I had been busy doing various things around the hospital, as well as visiting another completely different private hospital in a sugar plantation. In the meantime this gentleman had been to see the HIV specialist who had done a brief medical assessment of him…
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Another of our correspondents in Swaziland, Charlie, writes about an unusual case he recently encountered on the same day Emma was delivering her condom promotion classes … During a day spent in the rural community, during a teaching session on condom promotion. I was approached by an elderly lady and asked if she could speak…
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Following on from our previous teaching day in the village, we decided to teach whomever wanted to come along about the importance of condoms and how to use them. We set off at the break of dawn and made the long journey back to the rural village armed with 60 bananas and 100 condoms.…
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No food: During our teaching at the school, we made sure that questions were invited and that everyone should be free to ask anything. Problems that were commonly addressed included, “What should I do if I don’t have any food to take my ARVs with? How should I get food?” If you take the ARVs…
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The long walk to the village with Maké Today I organised along with Make and a primary school teacher to teach 30-40 people who live in a village about HIV. I really had no idea what to expect about the lesson, however I prepared an introduction and 2 stories in order to get across our…
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At the recent British Weightlifting Championships, our Sport Saving Lives advocate, Jordana Freemantle, won second place overall. This is a fantastic achievement which sets her up for further success later this year. “It was a very close competition,” Jordana explains. “I was ahead by 5kg leading into the deadlift – however, I was not…
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PRESS RELEASE 23-8-2011 McCarthy and his Wolves pitch in to field national awareness campaign Mick McCarthy and a team of his top players from Wolverhampton Wanderers have joined the National HIV Saving Lives Trust, leading the way for its football campaign. Saving Lives is aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of early HIV…