Category: Positive People
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It was great to have our work featured on BBC Midlands Today for World AIDS Day, and especially to have the opportunity to send the message that HIV testing really does save lives. With opt-out testing arriving in Birmingham in the new year, now really is the time to raise awareness about HIV today, and…
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Being diagnosed with HIV can be a difficult moment. Today’s life-saving treatments mean that those living with HIV can live full, normal lives – but the stigma, historical assumptions and other factors that still surround the virus can nevertheless lead to the newly diagnosed feeling uncertain and even frightened. That’s why it’s such good news…
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On the National AIDS Trust’s World AIDS Day website, there’s an interview with Garry Jones, Saving Lives ambassador and lead designer of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial, which DSaving Lives sponsored and supported: Garry Jones, 63, is an artist from Birmingham who has been living with HIV since 2006. A community activist for many…
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World AIDS Day was extra-special in Birmingham yesterday, as hundreds of people arrived in front of the city’s iconic Hippodrome Theatre to witness the unveiling of the UK’s largest memorial to those lost to HIV – and also its brightest beacon for those living with the virus today, and all we can achieve together in…
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[html5_video id=5012] Every World AIDS Day is a special opportunity to remember and respect those we have loved and lost to HIV/AIDS, and to appreciate how far we’ve come in the last forty years. It’s also often a time to look forward, too, and think about all the work there is yet to do to…
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This World AIDS Day, December 1st, Positive People everywhere are standing up and asking that everyone join them in making a pledge to stamp out HIV related stigma. Continuing stigma around HIV prevents people coming forward for testing. It stops people accessing life-saving treatment, and it makes people already living with the virus feel ashamed…
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Saving Lives has produced a range of resources for organisations and individuals to use for free to help mark World AIDS Day 2017. At home in the UK there are approximately 100,000 people living with HIV today – but more than 10,000 of these don’t know that they have the virus. The need for continued…
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New data released from Public Health England marks a turning point in the UK’s fight against HIV after large reductions in new HIV cases in 2016. The report Towards Elimination of HIV transmission, AIDS and HIV-related deaths in the UK, released today, shows an overall reduction in new cases of HIV by 18% compared to 2015…
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A new paper from medical journal The Lancet has reported that people with HIV diagnosed today can expect the same life expectancy of the general population. For years now we’ve referred to people living with HIV as having a “near normal” life expectancy, but according to this paper from The Lancet we’ve now reached…