Category: News
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Over at GP Online, Dr Iain Reeves and Dr Richard Ma discuss the importance of HIV testing for black Africans: Undiagnosed HIV remains an important problem in the UK. Those who are unaware of their infection cannot access life-prolonging treatment and face a much greater risk of mortality and morbidity because of late diagnosis. In…
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Over at GP Online, Dr Iain Reeves and Dr Richard Ma discuss the importance of HIV testing for black Africans: Undiagnosed HIV remains an important problem in the UK. Those who are unaware of their infection cannot access life-prolonging treatment and face a much greater risk of mortality and morbidity because of late diagnosis. In…
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This piece originally played at the Huffington Post … I am sitting in my front garden at 5am feeling slightly shell-shocked, wondering what has just happened – and wondering if I am still a doctor. What a strange opening to a blog. To put my dawn chorus into context, I thought it would be useful…
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I just thought I would write a quick blog post to update you and my story on here. Well where do I start ?? My viral load is now at 46 and my cd4 count is 646 – it has been amazing to watch how my viral load has been dropping and my CD4 count…
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An amazing performance last night from the England Women’s Football team, including several of Saving Lives’s own ambassadors! Here’s the BBC’s take: England finished their Women’s World Cup qualifying campaign with a 100% record as forward Eni Aluko’s hat-trick helped secure an emphatic 10-0 win against Montenegro. Mark Sampson’s team showed the ruthless streak the…
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Last week saw Saving Lives ambassdor Fabian Delph’s debut for the England senior side – and he’s been receiving a lot of plaudits for his performance. The Metro noted that, “the younger Yorkshireman enhanced his growing reputation with a very tidy display indeed”; the Telegraph’s Henry Winter observed that, “Fabian Delph a definite positive for…
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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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The British HIV Association, in co-operation with the National Institute for Health Research and Public Health England, is asking people living with HIV to fill out a survey on the subject of HIV cure research. The survey is designed to understand: your current views on HIV cure research whether you might take part in studies…
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Saving Lives has teamed up with Brook, Terrence Higgins Trust, and the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in a bid to provide sexual health services across Birmingham. The unique bid, which sees NHS doctors team up with charities to offer comprehensive sexual health provision to all of Birmingham and Solihull, has been made to…