Category: International
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According to the BBC, there are some alarming figures, “At least 2,234 Indians have contracted HIV while receiving blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months alone, say officials.” The story goes on to say, “Under law, it is mandatory for hospitals to screen donors and the donated blood for HIV, hepatitis B and C,…
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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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Simon Collins, HIV i-Base and Saving Lives Adviser On 27 May 2015, at least 18 months earlier than anyone expected, one of the largest ongoing HIV studies announced early results. The news was given at a high-level press conference in Washington by Dr Antony Fauci, head of the US National Institute for Allergy and Immune…
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We have a very exciting campaign lined up for National HIV Testing Week – which this year also coincides with European HIV Testing Week. Awareness-raising will culminate, of course, on World AIDS Day, December 1st. This year, we’ve got another of our campaigns planned which really will get everyone involved: celebrities, positive ambassadors, members of…
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<img src=”http://www.savinglivesuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140723-121538-44138166.jpg” alt=”20140723-121538-44138166.jpg” class=”aligncenter” width=”500″ /> Saving Lives is dedicated to raising awareness of HIV, HIV testing – and the challenges we face in diagnosing, treating and stopping the spread of HIV. Few events can provide as many headlines that achieve that aim, surely, than a former US president addressing the world’s leading HIV conference.…
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The news that Joep Lange, one of the HIV community’s leading researchers and a former president of the International AIDS Society, was aboard flight MH17, lost with everyone aboard in eastern Ukraine yesterday, is truly terrible. Original reports also suggested that up to one hundred delegates of the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne were also on the…
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It is with a truly heavy heart that we report the death of one of our founding patrons, Dr Charles Farthing. We only recently saw Charles at CROI in Boston, and the extremely sad news of his passing has come as a shock to all who knew him. In an email sharing the news, Merck’s…
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For International Women’s Day, we’d like to recognise and promote the contribution of all our female ambassadors and advocates. Thank you to each of you, and here’s to ever greater contributions from and equality for women across the world, both living with HIV and otherwise. Abby “I don’t think we could have managed to…
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This week sees the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections take place in the US city of Boston. Many of our international advisers will be attending, as will our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor. Throughout the conference, scientists will be presenting data on the latest HIV research, testing and diagnoses. Click here for further details. Our…
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At Saving Lives, we believe that few things in the fight against HIV and AIDS are as important as education and public advocacy. In a country such as South Africa, where 18% of the population were living with HIV in 2012, that awareness-raising is critical. The death of Nelson Mandela, then, marks the passing of…