Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Download this information as a printable leaflet. It’s a fact: a person living with HIV, who has an undetectable viral load, will not pass HIV to their sexual partners. It’s over thirty years since the start of the HIV epidemic, but now new science and medical data is changing the face of HIV and improving…
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[slideshow_deploy id=”2935″] Gary Rubin, our Canadian Saving Lives Advisor, was a close colleague of Professor Wainberg, the renowned HIV researcher who passed away a little earlier this year. In this post, Gary remembers Mark – both professionally and personally. Mark Wainberg was born in Montreal and studied science as an undergraduate at McGill University, and then…
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Partnering with beyondpositive, we are today releasing findings which show that HIV-positive individuals and their partners would benefit hugely from greater awareness of the HIV medication’s capacity to reduce transmission of the virus. View The Survey Online | Download the Survey in PDF In a survey of more than two hundred individuals living with the…
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On International Women’s Day, we want to pay tribute to all the women worldwide who are working hard to improve the lives of those living with HIV, to halt the spread of the virus – and to raise awareness and reduce the stigma that still surrounds the condition. Women are often in a unique and…
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Saving Lives is extremely proud to announce that Dr Mags Portman will be joining the charity in the role of Patron. Dr Portman joins Professor Jane Anderson, Professor Brian Gazzard, Baron Philip Hunt of Kings Heath and Dr Ed Wilkins on our board of patrons. Her role will be to offer expert advice, guidance and…
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This World AIDS Day, Saving Lives is collaborating with Care UK and Hewell Prison to offer HIV and Hepatitis C tests to patients accessing healthcare services within HMP Hewell in Redditch. Primary care nursing staff at the prison have been trained to carry out the Saving Lives fingerprick combined HIV and hepatitis C test –…
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Saving Lives has been promoting HIV testing in the gay and black communities in its native Birmingham, and reaching out to football clubs across the country to communicate a simple message: HIV testing saves lives, and stigma kills. “The later a person’s HIV is diagnosed, the worse their health can become,” says Dr Steve Taylor,…
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Saving Lives, our volunteers and ambassadors will be undertaking health promotion around Birmingham on 1st December (World Aids Day), in co-operation with local partners Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service. We’ll be joined, too, by some of the Heartlands HIV Service’s nurses and staff – so look out for the team, and come and say hello! The Saving…
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Saints midfielder Nathan Redmond is supporting the national charity Saving Lives to beat stigma during this year’s National HIV Testing Week. Nathan has been an ambassador for the charity since its launch five years ago. This year they are sending a simple message: stigma kills, and testing saves lives. “There are lots of myths about…
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Rams striker Darren Bent is giving his support to a national charity looking to fight stigma during this year’s National HIV Testing Week. Saving Lives promotes the importance of HIV testing in fighting the virus. This year they are sending a simple message: stigma kills, and testing saves lives. “You may not want to get…