Category: NHS
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On Saturday 24th May 2014, Healthy Gay Life (HGL), Saving Lives, and Sexual Health Services from Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust set out in the pouring rain to deliver sexual health testing at one of the biggest events of the year in the gay community, Birmingham Gay Pride 2014. 23 staff members of HEFT’s…
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We have worked extensively with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, promoting HIV testing in several contexts across their hospitals, especially the Royal London. That’s why we’re particularly interested in an item of short correspondence appearing in this week’s Lancet. Based around opt-out testing for all patients in critical care, it’s a fascinating piece of work…
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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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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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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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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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We’ve been supporting the Royal London Hospital in its effort to make HIV tests routine for some time, so it was great to see them receive superb coverage on Channel 4 News. You can watch the segment below – can you spot the Saving Lives artwork? We’re proud to be supporting such a superb project.
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It’s only six weeks until the UK’s second National HIV Testing Week [NHTW]. To be held between the 22nd and 29th November, NHTW is designed to raise awareness of HIV testing. The aim is to get more people taking this important test. There are plenty of ways to get involved, but one of the best…
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This post was originally published at Huffington Post: I write a lot on this blog about attitudes to HIV. In many ways, changing the way in which people think about HIV is now one of the most challenging things we do. We know that our medicines work well, our patient pathways are excellent, and increasingly…
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Two of our Saving Lives Positive Ambassadors, Shamim and Eric, appear in a piece in today’s G2 supplement of the Guardian: It is estimated by Saving Lives, an HIV awareness charity, that 110 people are HIV-positive and working in the NHS. It can only be estimated of course, because some – we don’t know how many…