Category: News
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We are delighted to announce that the former England international cricketer Paul Nixon has agreed to be the founding ambassador for Cricket Saving Lives. Paul is a highly-respected figure in the cricketing world, and has a stellar professional career to his name. His commitment and enthusiasm for our work and messages is hugely welcome, and…
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This press release has come direct from UNAIDS, discussing in detail the news we shared on Saturday: UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance, Jan Beagle (3rd left) participating in the THINK WISE events organized for the 2013 Champions Trophy final at the Edgbaston stadium. Credit: Getty images The final match of the 2013 ICC…
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Saving Lives positive ambassador, Tom, will be walking out at the start of tomorrow’s ICC Champions Trophy final in support of those living with HIV in the UK and worldwide. He’ll be acting as a UNAIDS ambassador and promoting both the Thinkwise campaign and the Saving Lives charity. It’s an absolutely fantastic opportunity for him…
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Attitude is an important concept when tackling a problem of the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A conversation with a laboratory technician helped me to relate to the local viewpoint of the infection, and how this will affect the future of the epidemic in Botswana. Upon spending time visiting the laboratory in Mahalapye, I became…
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The current Talkhealth online clinic on sexual health features a panel of health professionals including Saving Lives’s Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor. We’re also sponsoring the clinic, which is a great opportunity to ask the questions you’ve always wanted to … and get expert answers. See you over there – all sexual health questions welcome!
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In this post, Chris Carter, a final-year medical student at the University of Birmingham, continues his series of blogs from a hospital in Botswana … Outside of the hospital, HIV/AIDS appears to have become fairly taboo amongst the locals. On more than one occasion, I have been party to conversations which put down those living…
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Our Sport Saving Lives patron, Hannah England, competes this evening in the Rome Diamond League meeting. The Diamond League is a major series of fourteen meetings, held across the world, and represents one of the most prestigious track and field series. Hannah will be sharing the bill with the likes of Usain Bolt. On Saturday,…
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Football Saving Lives ambassador Nathan Redmond made his full England debut this evening, playing in the England Under-21s side against Italy. He was joined by fellow ambassador Jack Butland – both did some great work, congratulations!
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Let’s start at the beginning. I grew up in rural Worcestershire, the – finishing school in 2002. Now, sex education back in Worcestershire had been patchy (and that’s being polite) – I left school knowing very little about the world of sex, basically all I knew was that sex was for procreation and that giving birth…
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With great sadness we must report that, on Friday 31st May, one of our founding Saving Lives ambassadors, Peter Kamara, died whilst undergoing liver transplant. We have known Peter since 2006, when he was diagnosed, very late, with both HIV and Hepatitis-B. Peter responded extremely well to HIV treatment. But unfortunately he was discovered to…