Category: News
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So Yesterday I went along to meet Adrian from the Medical Illustration department at Heartlands Hospital to do a photo-shoot for the @savinglives campaign to raise awareness and support for people living with and/or effected by HIV. I was a bit nervous to start with but I soon had a big smile on my face…
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This piece originally appeared at the Huffington Post … This blog is definitely not for the faint-hearted: if you’re easily offended, please stop reading now! For those of you who would like to have a greater understanding of a new subculture which is rapidly emerging nationwide and internationally, and fuelling the transmission of STIs, HIV, hepatitis C,…
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Grace Taylor, aged 10, has directed her first short film to raise money for Saving Lives. Using Virgin Money, she has already raised £90 for the charity, and we’re confident she’s going to raise much more! You can donate using her page. Watch Grace’s film below – we think you’ll agree she looks set to…
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England and Chelsea Ladies star Eniola Aluko appears in our latest Football Saving Lives video, talking about her career, why she’s supporting the charity, and how getting an HIV test really can save lives. Watch it in full below!
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It’s great to see our positive ambassador, Angelina Namiba, proudly wearing her Saving Lives t-shirt in this post at Speaking Up (the blog of another of our ambassadors, Sylvia Pettreti!): We all have relationships. Those that we choose to be in. Such as relationships with partners, friends, lovers, wives and husbands. Those that we have…
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…first of many I hope!! Well I thought it was about time I started to blog some stuff seems the lovely people at Saving Lives have kindly given me this space on their site to air some views, thoughts and feelings. To start with you may have guessed my name is Tyler (very nice to…
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At Saving Lives, we believe that few things in the fight against HIV and AIDS are as important as education and public advocacy. In a country such as South Africa, where 18% of the population were living with HIV in 2012, that awareness-raising is critical. The death of Nelson Mandela, then, marks the passing of…
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This piece originally appeared at the Huffington Post … This week is National HIV Testing Week, leading up to World Aids Day 2013 on 1 December. The question is, how many of you were aware of this – and what can we do to enhance that awareness? For too long, educational messages about HIV/AIDS, and about the…
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World AIDS Day is always an emotional time: it’s a day on which both to take stock and look back; we can see how far we’ve come, but also how much we have left to do. World AIDS Day is a day to remember those no longer with us – and, to honour them, we…
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We were at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital’s Hawthorn House today to take part in their 20th anniversay celebrations. Saving Lives ambassador Sally Walton was there to help with the balloon release, and our battle bus was on hand to provide HIV testing information. [nggallery id=27]