Category: News
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Originally published at Huffington Post: We set up the HIV awareness charity Saving Lives to promote HIV testing and public health. We believe passionately that one in four of those with HIV in the UK not knowing their status is too high a figure, and that public advocacy and awareness-raising can have a positive benefit on…
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James is currently our featured advocate in our Positive People section. His story includes the classic symptoms of a ‘seroconversion illness’, the sickness people often experience shortly after being infected with HIV, but can mistake for the ‘flu. Missing the seroconversion illness, and not getting the test early as James did, can result in not…
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The Health Protection Agency has announced a 26% increase in the number of men who have sex with men (MSM) having sexual intercourse without using condoms. This latest report follows news released last November that record numbers of people in the UK are living with HIV and another report released earlier this year concluded the…
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Dr Steve Taylor, Medical Director of Saving Lives, has written on Huffington Post about the ongoing debates around home testing for HIV: In the course of my medical life, I’ve overheard many people ask their friends the question, “Have you had an HIV test?” “No,” comes the common reply. “I know I should, but I…
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Sport Saving Lives advocate – and Saving Lives Avenger – Sally Walton was a guest on this morning’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme. She discussed age, women and sport with John Humphries. Listen below!
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Originally published at Huffington Post: In the course of my medical life, I’ve overheard many people ask their friends the question, “Have you had an HIV test?” “No,” comes the common reply. “I know I should, but I don’t want it on my medical records. It affects your insurance premiums, doesn’t it? And you can only…
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Joan is currently our featured advocate on the Positive People page. You can listen to an interview with her, and also read her story. I’m still uncertain as to when I contracted HIV. I’m in a long-term, loving marriage and am far from the stereotype people may have in their minds about ‘the sort of…
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In the latest edition of Positively UK magazine, one of the founding directors of Saving Lives, Dan Hartland, writes about public advocacy and disclosure as a kind of activism: We rely on advocates who are living with HIV to help us devise our messages and communicate the realities of today’s HIV-positive people. We’ve benefited from…
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We’re proud to announce the addition of another positive advocate – and one with a real talent for expressing himself. Phil’s fantastic new piece for us, about his experience of being diagnosed and then living with HIV, can be read in our Positive People section here. It’s a must read, particularly since Phil’s a great…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, has published again at the Huffington Post: I’ve been fortunate enough in my medical career to see real improvements in the treatment options we can offer our HIV positive patients. In the early 1980s we didn’t even have a name for HIV; now we have a wide range of…