Category: Football

Football Saving Lives is a public health campaign focused on promoting the importance of HIV testing. By 2012 more than 100,000 people in the UK will have HIV – and a quarter will be unaware they have the infection. That means they cannot access today’s life-saving treatment, and may also be unknowingly passing on the…

On December 3rd, 2011, just two days after World AIDS Day, Aston Villa participated in the Football Saving Lives launch week. The team wore Saving Lives t-shirts during warm-up, and we featured in the day’s match programme. Aston Villa were playing Manchester United that day, giving an international audience to really positive HIV messages. Below…

Placing HIV awareness messages in the mainstream media has traditionally been difficult for campaigns looking to present the facts to the general public. That’s why we were so excited to see both The Sun and the Daily Express cover the launch of Football Saving Lives this weekend: the Sun, for instance, pictured Aston Villa player…

Courtesy of AVTV, here’s some great footage from our press conference at Aston Villa with Stiliyan Petrov, as well as some exclusive interviews both with Stiliyan and our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor.

Football Saving Lives patron, Stiliyan Petrov, joined with the charity’s Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, to talk to the press today at Aston Villa Football Club’s training ground. During a press conference at Bodymoor Heath, Stiliyan reaffirmed the importance of the Saving Lives message, and how crucial it is that HIV remains in the public…

Aston Villa captain and Bulgarian international Stiliyan Petrov has agreed to become patron of Football Saving Lives. The HIV awareness campaign, which seeks to educate football fans about the importance of HIV testing, focuses on communicating with an audience often under-exposed to HIV messages. One in four of those with HIV in the UK are…

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…

We’ve designed some wallpaper for your compute desktop, to mark the great support given to us by Wolverhampton Wanderers – make this your wallpaper, and fly the Wolves and the Saving Lives colours, all at the same time! They’re available in five resolutions for your convenience. 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1280×960 1600×1200

We recently paid to trip to Molineux, to get the thoughts of some of our Football Saving Lives advocates onto video. Wolverhampton Wanderers are supporting the campaign terrifically, and we’re grateful for the time of the club, its management and players. You can click on the thumbnails below to view exclusive YouTube videos…    …

As the new season gets underway, the time seems right to offer our congratulations and best wishes to Football Saving Lives advocate Ben Foster, who has joined West Bromwich Albion on a season-long loan. Baggies coach Roy Hodgson has said: “He was always the goalkeeper that we targeted as our number one choice for the…