Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Downloadable U=U and HIV Test, Treat, Prevent Posters for your Clinics, Communities, and Hospitals More and more people are talking about U=U, and we have had requests for some of our posters to be made available for download! So, to mark National HIV Testing Week, we are delighted to offer our materials free of charge as…
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As part of our World AIDS Day celebrations, Saving Lives is proud to say we’ll be part of Positive West Midlands’ event on Saturday, 1st December at Apaches Bar in Birmingham. People will be gathering the second city to remember, educate … and celebrate. With a World AIDS Day Wishing Tree and Memorial Quilt to decorate, live music and free HIV & STI testing, the event will also feature personal stories from people living with HIV…
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University of Birmingham medical students have raised an amazing £500 at the city’s half marathon this month, all in aid of the charitable work of Saving Lives. Afrah Riaz and Adam Arshad have founded a student group linked to Saving Lives at the University. Their aim is to enhance HIV awareness amongst the medical student…
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We are delighted that Doctor Matthew Page, Clinical Research Fellow at Birmingham Heartlands HIV service and University of Birmingham, won the Best Sexual Health Oral Presentation award at the 4th joint BHIVA/BASHH conference in Edinburgh this week. Collaborating with our charity and medics and scientists from PHE Labs Birmingham, the Institute or Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham,…
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STOKE CITY, alongside many of the country’s other top sides, are proud to be working with the national charity Saving Lives for World AIDS Day – and the message is that we can all make a difference! Today is World AIDS Day and new data released by Public Health England shows there are still more…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, speaks in this brand new podcast about this year’s World AIDS Day: where we’ve come from, where we are … and where we’re going. For the first time, many organisations, including the British HIV Association, are stating that U=U – or Undetectable equals Untransmittable. This is a huge step,…
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It’s not just the public who need education about HIV, its symptoms, and the importance of testing: at Saving Lives, we’re committed to spreading the word within the clinical community, too. To mark the beginning of this year’s National HIV Testing Week, we have redesigned and reissued out Clinical Inidcator leaflets … And we’re making…
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We’ve had news from HCV Action that the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Liver Health has launched an inquiry into hepatitis C elimination. The APPG will host three oral evidence sessions in Parliamentwhere key stakeholders will provide their perspectives on the practical and strategic changes needed to move towards elimination of hepatitis C in England.…
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Two London doctors, Will Wynter Bee and James Denny, underwent one of the hardest physical challenges to raise money for Saving Lives. Through generous sponsorship they have raised over £1500 for Swaziland’s Saving Lives. This was not without its challenges. They swam 3.8km followed by a 180km cycle and finishing off with a marathon in…
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People currently ordering Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) online, or considering doing so, have been invited to give their opinion on a new support service launching soon in Birmingham. The national charity Saving Lives is asking people interested in PrEP to attend a meeting at the LGBT Centre, Holloway Circus, on Thursday November 9th at 7:00pm for…