Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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As part of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial project, Saving Lives has been supported local artists, schools and craft groups to produce a range of quilts that chart the history of HIV in Birmingham and more widely. This Arts Council England-funded project has created a beautiful document of how HIV has been understood in…
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Saving Lives has been very happy to supply the testing services to this year’s National HIV Testing Week activity in Birmingham. Flying under the collective banned of Fast Track Cities Birmingham, a range of NHS and charitable organisations have joined forces this last week to undertake testing outreach across the city. A mobile testing van…
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Saving Lives is extremely proud that its home city of Birmingham signed up as part of the Fast Track Cities initiative last year. This UNAIDS project enables cities to declare their intention to meet a range of goals around HIV and BBVs – most especially the elimination of HIV by 2030. Each Fast Track City…
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World AIDS Day was extra-special in Birmingham yesterday, as hundreds of people arrived in front of the city’s iconic Hippodrome Theatre to witness the unveiling of the UK’s largest memorial to those lost to HIV – and also its brightest beacon for those living with the virus today, and all we can achieve together in…
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[html5_video id=5012] Every World AIDS Day is a special opportunity to remember and respect those we have loved and lost to HIV/AIDS, and to appreciate how far we’ve come in the last forty years. It’s also often a time to look forward, too, and think about all the work there is yet to do to…
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Saving Lives is extremely proud to be attending Birmingham’s Fast Track Cities+ launch event this evening. Dr Steve Taylor, our Medical Director – and Clinical Lead of the city’s FTC+ programme – will be part of a signing ceremony marking the beginning of this exciting new phase for Birmingham’s approach to HIV. FTC+ is a…
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In the past few days we have received messages from members of the public who have been understandably worried about the current and evolving Monkeypox virus outbreak, particularly given the media emphasis on community transmission among MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) communities. Monkeypox IS NOT an STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) but is spread…
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Today sees the launch of a truly exciting new course of sex education videos for schools, starring Saving Lives’ own Naomi Sutton and GP Becky Foljambe. Saving Lives has been proud to co-found the series, and cannot wait to see the welcome it receives – and the positive impacts it achieves! Hosted by the charity…
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The student arm of Saving Lives, based at the University of Birmingham’s Medical School, recently attended a production of Larry Kramer’s 1985 play, The Normal Heart, at the National Theatre in London – and they did so in full Saving Lives dress! Representing the charity at the performance couldn’t have been more fitting. The Normal Heart is an…
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The University of Birmingham branch of Saving Lives UK is a medical student led group set up back in 2018. Our goal is to work alongside the national Saving Lives charity to spread awareness, increase testing, and reduce stigma of HIV, hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted infections. This work includes raising awareness amongst both the…