Category: NHS
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With just three days to go until National HIV Testing Week, why not test your knowledge of HIV against our sporting ambassadors in this fun video quiz? This year for NHTW, our poster campaign will focus on telling people to #gettested for #hiv – and we’re funding 1000 free tests via HIVTestUK.com to make sure…
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This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post. In a front-page headline of this week, the national newspaper The Sun peddled HIV stigma which is out of date in 2015. In a garish splash designed to attract attention, the paper trumpeted an ‘exclusive’ story about what it called an ‘HIV Hollywood Panic’. According to the…
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HIV Testing saves lives. That means HIV awareness saves lives – so how do we raise awareness? This National HIV Testing Week, it’s easy: take and tweet a selfie with a message. Help us Save Lives by taking a “Selfie” and posting it on Twitter or Facebook. It’s easy! This year, Saving Lives is making postal…
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Our collaboration with the Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust Pathology Laboratories launched yesterday, and has already received coverage in the media, on BBC Midlands Today and on ITV Central News. You can read the ITV piece about our online postal HIV testing portal here, and watch the BBC video below.…
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Saving Lives Patron, Professor Jane Anders0n, and Saving Lives Ambassador, Carl Froch, have both been featured in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Jane, a former Chair of the British HIV Association, was awarded a CBE “for services to HIV Medicine and Sexual Health Research.” Meanwhile, Carl, the current WBC world super middleweight champion, was made…
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Simon Collins, HIV i-Base and Saving Lives Adviser On 27 May 2015, at least 18 months earlier than anyone expected, one of the largest ongoing HIV studies announced early results. The news was given at a high-level press conference in Washington by Dr Antony Fauci, head of the US National Institute for Allergy and Immune…
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This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post last week reported what many would at first glance assume to be excellent news: “For the first time, a legally approved HIV self-testing kit is available to buy in the UK. The BioSURE HIV Self Test will enable people to test themselves when and…
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This from the British HIV Association is of relevance to our last few posts. It’s been more than 12 months since our 2013 member survey hit the headlines on World AIDS Day, generating broadcast news coverage on BBC bulletins throughout the day, and appearing in the Guardian, Pulse and the HSJ. The survey highlighted challenges…
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The effects of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 are beginning to be felt in the HIV care sector. According to this Act, sexual health services – not including HIV, which will remain nationally commissioned – must now be paid for and delivered at a local level. This means that local authorities must issue…
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This piece originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Let me answer the question I pose in the title of this post straight away: I think the answer is a most resounding yes. But more of that later …. “I usually get a lot of retweets, favourites and mentions whenever I put something out on Twitter,”…