Category: News
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Fantastic to see more great coverage of our current joint campaign with The Royal London Hospital, this time in the Daily Mail: The screening programme is being part-organised by HIV awareness charity Saving Lives, which is running a campaign called the Saving Lives Avengers. The initiative aims to use well-known sports personalities to educate people…
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Very exciting to see news of our latest campaign on the official Carl Froch versus Mikkel Kessler website: You can read the full story here.
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Great news in the East London Advertiser of a campaign featuring the Saving Lives Avengers: Tests for HIV are to be offered to patients walking into the Accident & Emergency department at the Royal London Hospital. A new scheme is being piloted offering routine testing to give anyone found to be ‘positive’ the earliest possible medical treatment.…
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Our positive advocates are people living with HIV who help us devise and deliver the right awareness messages to the public. Chris Kearl has been living with HIV since the infections earliest days, and has a moving story to tell about the difficult days of the 1980s, the improvement in treatment, the continued problem of…
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Big congratulations our Football Saving Lives advocate, Kerys Harrop, who has been called up for the England team for the first time. According to BBC Sport: Coach Hope Powell said: “Kerys has done well with the under-23s and we have been monitoring her for a while.” Harrop, 22, was a part of the Birmingham side…
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On Monday 4 March, the world awoke to a media storm: news was buzzing around the world that a Mississippi baby had been cured of HIV. We were soon bombarded with a flurry of media reports about how this case was set to change the HIV treatment paradigm, prevent babies from being infected, and, to…
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Originally published at Huffington Post: On Monday 4 March, the world awoke to a media storm: news was buzzing around the world that a Mississippi baby had been cured of HIV. We were soon bombarded with a flurry of media reports about how this case was set to change the HIV treatment paradigm, prevent babies…
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The case of the baby who has been apparently cured of HIV has been appearing in headlines across the world. We thought it would be a good idea to provide some resources about this case which might help explain and contextualise it. Below, we have a video with the author of the original study, some…
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Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children living with the virus that causes AIDS. The data is being presented at CROI today at 11.30 am – and our Medical Director, HIV…
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At the Huffington Post, Dr Steve Taylor, Medical Director of Saving Lives, writes: I believe the NHS provides a gold standard service of care to our HIV patients. Yes, I also admit we are likely not the cheapest service there is – but the NHS is about patients, about quality, and about care. It’s about…