Category: News
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The FA WSL season began yesterday, featuring many of our ambassadors, advocates and supporters. We’ll be keeping a keen eye on the whole league this season, since we enjoy the support of players from most of the league’s top clubs, including Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Birmingham, Everton, Bristol and more. Read more about our women’s…
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It is with a truly heavy heart that we report the death of one of our founding patrons, Dr Charles Farthing. We only recently saw Charles at CROI in Boston, and the extremely sad news of his passing has come as a shock to all who knew him. In an email sharing the news, Merck’s…
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Saving Lives volunteer, Dr Mags Portman, has recently had a rapid response to the BMJ published in the journal proper. The article, entitled Routinely test for HIV in everyone presenting with unexplained lymphopenia, appeared on April 3rd and can be read here. This is superb news for Mags, but also for anyone passionate about HIV…
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Fantastic news for England Ladies and for Saving Lives ambassador Toni Duggan in particular: Toni Duggan scored a hat-trick as England sauntered to a 9-0 victory over Montenegro in Mark Sampson’s first home match in charge, cementing their place at the top of World Cup qualifying Group 6. The Manchester City striker started the rout in the…
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For International Women’s Day, we’d like to recognise and promote the contribution of all our female ambassadors and advocates. Thank you to each of you, and here’s to ever greater contributions from and equality for women across the world, both living with HIV and otherwise. Abby “I don’t think we could have managed to…
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Birmingham City defender Jonathan Spector, and captain Paul Robinson, featured in our National HIV Testing Week 2013 campaign (you can see the Birmingham City educational booklet here), and continue to act as ambassadors for Saving Lives. In this video, they talk about why they support the charity – and about the facts around HIV.
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This week sees the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections take place in the US city of Boston. Many of our international advisers will be attending, as will our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor. Throughout the conference, scientists will be presenting data on the latest HIV research, testing and diagnoses. Click here for further details. Our…
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Sammy Ameobi and Vurnon Anita, who play for Tyneside giants Newcastle United, have agreed to become Football Saving Lives advocates alongside fellow North-East stars Craig Gardner and Steven Fletcher, who play for Sunderland. You can read more about Sammy here, and more about Vurnon here. In addition, our Newcastle United club booklet is now available…
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Grace Taylor has already raised £160 for Saving Lives with her charity video Gobbo’s Revenge – and she’s now moved on to its sequel in a bid to get even more money into the charity’s coffers! Watch the new film below, and donate to Grace’s campaign here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMX8GkL-RSo
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Our friends at Body Positive North East are undertaking a great awareness-raising event this July: a simultaneous bike ride and walk around Kielder Water in Northumberland. Body Positive North East (BPNE) is a long established user-led organisation, providing support and services to people, families and communities affected by HIV throughout the North East since 1988.…