Category: News
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This week is National HIV Testing Week. Using creativity for the good of the community, Saving Lives has been proud to support Garry Jones, designer of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial South and a local artists, to work with City College Birmingham’s Art & Design students. The goal? To create stunning art that encourages…
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‘Peter’ from Walsall feels let down by care he received as a person living with HIV. In this piece for ITV News, ‘Peter’ – from Walsall – speaks about his experience accessing surgery in the NHS as a person living with HIV: I was on the trolly outside the doors to the operating theatre at…
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It was great to have our work featured on BBC Midlands Today for World AIDS Day, and especially to have the opportunity to send the message that HIV testing really does save lives. With opt-out testing arriving in Birmingham in the new year, now really is the time to raise awareness about HIV today, and…
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Local government, the NHS and charities are joining forces in a trail-blazing collaboration to mark this year’s World AIDS Day Birmingham – and the teamwork could point towards achieving the elimination of HIV, say experts. Birmingham City Council, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham-based charities including Saving Lives, the team behind the Birmingham…
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Saving Lives strongly welcomes the government’s decision to fund opt-out A&E HIV and Hepatitis testing in high-prevalence areas across England. This intervention will significantly improve detection rates of HIV, and therefore the health outcomes of those living with the virus. Many people infected with HIV are not aware of their status because they are yet…
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This month, our Arts Council England-funded Cover Up project has been exhibiting the quilts produced by its participants in both Birmingham’s Hippodrome and Jubilee Centre. What has been most rewarding about these public exhibitions are the conversations that the quilts have generated. From very young children to great-grandparents, the quilts spark questions about the history…
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As part of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial project, Saving Lives has been supported local artists, schools and craft groups to produce a range of quilts that chart the history of HIV in Birmingham and more widely. This Arts Council England-funded project has created a beautiful document of how HIV has been understood in…
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Saving Lives has been very happy to supply the testing services to this year’s National HIV Testing Week activity in Birmingham. Flying under the collective banned of Fast Track Cities Birmingham, a range of NHS and charitable organisations have joined forces this last week to undertake testing outreach across the city. A mobile testing van…
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Saving Lives is extremely proud that its home city of Birmingham signed up as part of the Fast Track Cities initiative last year. This UNAIDS project enables cities to declare their intention to meet a range of goals around HIV and BBVs – most especially the elimination of HIV by 2030. Each Fast Track City…
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In the past few days we have received messages from members of the public who have been understandably worried about the current and evolving Monkeypox virus outbreak, particularly given the media emphasis on community transmission among MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) communities. Monkeypox IS NOT an STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) but is spread…