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As part of our World AIDS Day awareness raising, we’ve launched a twibbon you can apply to your avatar on Twitter. The Stop The Stigma twibbon is a great way of showing your support this World AIDS Day – and sending the message that together we can beat stigma and improve the health of all our…
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Marking this year’s National HIV Testing Week (NHTW, 21st November), the HIV awareness-raising charity Saving Lives, in collaboration with Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service, are launching www.HIVTestUK.com, an innovative free postal HIV testing service. The campaign has the support of a range of sporting and celebrity ambassadors, including Premiership footballers, Olympic medalists, and DJs – and has…
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It’s National HIV Testing Week, and we’re raising awareness about #HIV – and spreading the word that we should #GetTested. How can you help? Here are five easy ways to join in our campaign: 1. Please help us spread the word: it helps fight stigma, it raises awareness, it educates – and most of all it…
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National HIV Testing Week begins on Saturday, 21st November – and from then right up until the end of World AIDS Day on December 1st, we’ll be raising awareness – and providing testing. Thanks to HIVtestuk.com we are able to provide free postal HIV test during NHTW. Watch the how-to videos below, and help us…
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During National HIV Testing Week we have teamed up with www.HIVTESTUK.com to offer free confidential postal HIV kits for you use. Watch the how to do it videos here: Video 1, Video 2. Don’t forget to download our fantastic free NHTW posters to raise awareness at your place of work. Also during testing week, why not…
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We promised more details … and with four days lest until National HIV Testing Week, here they are: some more images of some of the ambassadors signed up for 2015’s campaign. This year, we’ll be raising awareness and offering 1000 free postal HIV tests to anyone in the country via HIVTestUK.com.. Our latest slate of…
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National HIV Testing Week begins on November 21st, and from then until the very end of World AIDS Day on December 1st, our Saving Lives ambassadors will be raising awareness and promoting free postal HIV testing through HIVTestUK.com. Our support this year comes from a fantastic range of ambassadors from the world of sport and…
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In a front-page headline of this week, the national newspaper The Sun peddled HIV stigma which is out of date in 2015. In a garish splash designed to attract attention, the paper trumpeted an ‘exclusive’ story about what it called an ‘HIV Hollywood Panic’. According to the front-page details, an ‘A-list star’ has been diagnosed…
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HIV Testing saves lives. That means HIV awareness saves lives – so how do we raise awareness? This National HIV Testing Week, it’s easy: take and tweet a selfie with a message. Help us Save Lives by taking a “Selfie” and posting it on Twitter or Facebook. It’s easy! This year, Saving Lives is making postal…
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The investiture of Professor Clive Loveday as an ‘Officer to the Order of St John of Jerusalem’ for services to International Charities and HIV/AIDS takes place in the City of London on 20th October 2015 at The St Johns Church. Professor Loveday worked as a volunteer, in a team, for St Johns Ambulance developing the…