Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Somto Eruchie is a 400m sprinter and also works as a phlebotomist at Birmingham’s City Hospital. He is due to compete at the end of the month in the UK Championships, at the second city’s Alexander Stadium. Here he talks about his background, his goals in athletics, and his support for the HIV awareness campaign,…
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International Saving Lives volunteer Emma Wallis will be blogging over the next few weeks from Siteki, Swaziland. In the first of her dispatches, she writes about the general HIV situation in the country, and the daily problems of communication and persuasion which face doctors seeking to convince patients to test for HIV… Introduction to the…
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Two leading British athlete are helping to launch HIV awareness campaign Sport Saving Lives as sporting ambassadors, to help spread the word about the importance of HIV testing in the fight against HIV. Julian Thomas and Somto Eruchie, both 200m sprinters with the Birchfield Harriers team, are based at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. Both are…
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Michael Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, has been urging donors not to assume China no longer needs help in its fight against HIV. despite its economic progress, China continues to need, according to Sidibe, a “catalytic fund”. In our own work in China, we share this assumption and applaud Sidibe for saying so: China is…
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Emma Wallis, a final year medical student at the University of Leeds, has volunteered for Saving Lives: she’s arriving in Swaziland this week to learn more about the fight against HIV in a country particularly hard hit by the infection, and will be blogging her experiences for us here on the site. She’ll be working…
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Many congratulations to one of our Football Saving Lives advocates, Roberto di Matteo. Roberto has been appointed assistant manager of Chelsea Football Club – meaning he’s returning to his old stomping ground of Stamford Bridge. Playing for the club, he of course won the Cup Winner’s Cup and the League – and with new manager…
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David and Daniel, who both work with Saving Lives to promote HIV awareness and reduce stigma, recently featured in an online feature at style bible Dazed & Confused’s website. You can view the story here – the guys have something interesting, and inspiring, things to say about living with HIV. We even get a mention!
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Saving Lives gets a mention in today’s Birmingham Mail, courtesy of our Medical Director, Dr Steven Taylor. Steve, who is an HIV consultant at Heartlands Hospital in the city, is quoted in a piece about the one in four of those with HIV who do not know they have been infected. The piece was also…
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We like to be comprehensive at Saving Lives, so, following our coverage yesterday of the great routine testing programme being rolled out at Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, here’s another encouraging story from Manchester: “Patients being admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary are being routinely offered HIV screening as part of a new policy to boost detection…
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Here’s a fantastic news story from the BBC: Chelsea and Westminster and St Mary’s Hospitals have begun to offer HIV tests to patients in their accident and emergency departments. This is precisely the sort of normalisation of HIV testing that Saving Lives campaigns for. Dr Ann Sullivan, Consultant Physician at Chelsea and Westminster, is quoted in…