Category: NHS
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The British HIV Association has today published data from its latest report into HIV testing and diagnosis in the UK, and they’re important reading for anyone interested in improving the HIV situation in this country. In particular, their findings on HIV detection in hospitals are key to understanding why increasing testing and reducing the obstacles…
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httpv://youtu.be/OpHlANPVuiw Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, offers his comments on the BBC’s story that a new HIV quad pill ‘may improve care’. Other versions of the story can also be seen at ABC News and NetDoctor, and the news is based on the application for approval from Gilead Sciences received by the USA’s Food…
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A new booklet about HIV testing has been published by HIV i-Base. Co-written by one of our advisers, Simon Collins, along with contributions from a former Saving Lives staffer, Charlotte Walker, it’s a really great resource. It is detailed yet easy to read, and full of exactly the sort of messages we try to communicate,…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live on World AIDS Day, along with one of Saving Lives’ positive advocates, Daniel. You can hear their segment on Victoria Derbyshire’s show, which featured several other contributions, too, by using the player below.
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Dr Steve Taylor, Lead HIV Consultant at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Medical Director of Saving Lives, was interviewed on the BBC News Channel for World AIDS Day. He appeared in the segment alongside musician and HIV awareness campaigner, Annie Lennox.
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The Health Protection Agency has released its annual report into HIV in the UK. The HPA’s work is the best way for us to take the temperature of HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment in this country, and there conclusion is the same as our own: Dr Valerie Delpech of the HPA, a Saving Lives adviser…
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This article from Saturday’s Guardian is well worth a read, featuring Rankin’s new celebrity portraits timed to coincide with the release of the campaigning film, Life In My Shoes. It’s great to see stigma being tackled in so mainstream – and so high-profile – a way. Well done all involved. It is when 18-year-old Blessing…
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The Government last week issued its response to the HIV report produced by Lord Fowler’s committee in July (which you can read here). The document, which has been made available in PDF format by the Department of Health, is 31 pages in length and indicates to some extent the current Government’s position on HIV and…
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Valerie Delpech is the Health Protection Agency’s Head of HIV Statistics, and also one of our advisers. Our advisers provide key know-how and input which informs our campaigns and messages, as well as offering important advocacy in crucial corners of the HIV world. We’re enormously grateful to Valerie and all our advisers for offering their…
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NHS Saving Lives has launched a free personalisation service, offering HIV testing information leaflets to NHS Trusts and organisations across the country at no charge. The guide highlights indicator conditions which help show when an HIV test should be recommended. Clinics have found it very popular with physicians in non-HIV specialties, as well as GPs,…