Category: NHS
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Saving Lives has been promoting HIV testing in the gay and black communities in its native Birmingham, and reaching out to football clubs across the country to communicate a simple message: HIV testing saves lives, and stigma kills. “The later a person’s HIV is diagnosed, the worse their health can become,” says Dr Steve Taylor,…
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Saving Lives, our volunteers and ambassadors will be undertaking health promotion around Birmingham on 1st December (World Aids Day), in co-operation with local partners Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service. We’ll be joined, too, by some of the Heartlands HIV Service’s nurses and staff – so look out for the team, and come and say hello! The Saving…
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Saving Lives began its life as an awareness campaign within a single hospital. We aimed to encourage non-specialist doctors to test for HIV when indicator symptoms presented themselves – and our campaign worked. Of course, any awareness-raising is an ongoing mission – many campaigns make change, not one. Nevertheless, the details in this story from the…
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Saving Lives began life as a campaign to raise awareness of HIV testing amongst hospital doctors. A new campaign, HIV Awareness in Primary Care (HIVAP) aims to do the same among GPs and in their practices. The HIVAP group, which has developed the campaign, is a taskforce made up of leading GPs who specialise in HIV and sexual…
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NHS England has shelved plans to offer #PrEP to at risk groups: As set out in the Local Authorities (Public Health Functions and Entry to Premises by Local Healthwatch Representatives) Regulations 2013, local authorities are the responsible commissioner for HIV prevention services. Including PrEP for consideration in competition with specialised commissioning treatments as part of…
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This World AIDS Day, our message is simple: stop the stigma. As our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, recently wrote on the Huffington Post, “It is within our grasp to control HIV, defeat the stigma that still surrounds it, and make individuals and the community alike healthier.” So for World AIDS Day our message is…
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Marking this year’s National HIV Testing Week (NHTW, 21st November), the HIV awareness-raising charity Saving Lives, in collaboration with Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service, are launching www.HIVTestUK.com, an innovative free postal HIV testing service. The campaign has the support of a range of sporting and celebrity ambassadors, including Premiership footballers, Olympic medalists, and DJs – and has…
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In the video above, Dr Steve Taylor offers a message to healthcare professionals for National HIV Testing Week and World AIDS Day.
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National HIV Testing Week begins on Saturday, 21st November – and from then right up until the end of World AIDS Day on December 1st, we’ll be raising awareness – and providing testing. Thanks to HIVtestuk.com we are able to provide free postal HIV test during NHTW. Watch the how-to videos below, and help us…
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During National HIV Testing Week we have teamed up with www.HIVTESTUK.com to offer free confidential postal HIV kits for you use. Watch the how to do it videos here: Video 1, Video 2. Don’t forget to download our fantastic free NHTW posters to raise awareness at your place of work. Also during testing week, why not…