New U=U resource empowers patient-doctor conversations
The Saving Lives charity has released a new resource aimed at empowering patient-doctor conversations around U=U The charity, who are exhibiting at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in London…
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Saving Lives Partner Wins Parliamentary Recognition
Saving Lives has for many years worked alongside the Heartlands HIV Service in Birmingham - in fact, our roots are to be found in the clinic, where our campaigns first…
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Latest Videos
Video is a great way of getting the message across. Watch what we've been up to.
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Educational Booklets
We’ve published a range of educational booklets, and each are still available as downloads. For printed copies, please do get in touch – and we’ll see what we can achieve…
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Clinical Indicator Leaflets
It’s not just the public who need education about HIV, its symptoms, and the importance of testing: at Saving Lives, we’re committed to spreading the word within the clinical community,…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: The Final Week
So, this is it – the final blog. And if I don’t start it pronto, two things are likely to happen. First, the opportunity for you to be persuaded by…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 40
So, the time has come to wind up in earnest, something that the friendly blog-posters at Green Shoots Foundation (Muneezay) and Saving lives UK (Daniel) will be delighted to hear…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 39
Having just started the process of packing to return to freezing Manchester forever, I have come to realise just how much suitcase-defying junk a man left to his own devices…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 38
Well, what a month this has been! Even though my days are nowhere near over yet, they are now numbered, and I must muster one determined effort to create the…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 37
For all I know you might be redirecting this straight into your spam folder but, for those with a filial responsibility to make certain they’re kept in the inheritance game,…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 36
Well, here goes with the latest in a slew of blogs culling my back log of posts, albeit I’m certain any obsessive professional blogger would regard this as a couple…
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Dr Naomi, Saving Lives Ambassador takes to TV in The Sex Clinic
Saving Lives Ambassador, Dr Naomi Sutton, is taking the message that "testing saves lives" to the nation as the star E4's 'The Sex Clinic' on Monday nights. Dr Naomi Sutton…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 35
As is my wont and your experience, your eternal wait (fat chance in reality) for a blog brings an incredible flurry of three in as many weeks, and this is…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 34
So herewith the first of another super-late series of epistles charting a smattering of my fondest moments, both significant and trivial, from the archival footage of the 5 weeks of…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 33
Unbelievably as I start this blog with my traditional double espresso, the rain appears to be having an away-day, the sun is out, and the humidity is a sweltering 98%.…
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People Who Inject With Drugs and Community Testing
https://youtu.be/aJAETMuQq_I We were featured recently on BBC Midlands Today, in a story about the concerning increase in HIV cases amongst people who inject drugs (PWID). We've been busy helping local…
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World AIDS Day 2018
Saturday 1st December 2018 marks thirty years of observing World AIDS Day Birmingham World AIDS Day 2018 event - click to enlarge Over thirty years has passed since the…
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Naomi Sutton Signs Up As Saving Lives Ambassador
https://youtu.be/ab1ybtI2idE For National HIV Testing Week 2018, Dr Naomi Sutton takes us through why we should all care about HIV testing. Naomi is a Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and…
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National HIV Testing Week 2018 Posters
Downloadable U=U and HIV Test, Treat, Prevent Posters for your Clinics, Communities, and Hospitals More and more people are talking about U=U, and we have had requests for some of our…
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Football Saving Lives 2018
Saturday 17th November sees the start of National HIV Testing Week 2018. Saving Lives along with our Football Ambassadors are encouraging everyone to get tested, know their HIV status &…
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National HIV Testing Week 2018
Saturday 17th November sees the start of National HIV Testing Week 2018 and Saving Lives is encouraging everyone to get tested, know their HIV status and educate themselves on U…
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World AIDS Day 2018 in Birmingham
As part of our World AIDS Day celebrations, Saving Lives is proud to say we'll be part of Positive West Midlands' event on Saturday, 1st December at Apaches Bar in…
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Birmingham Med Students Get Running for Saving Lives
University of Birmingham medical students have raised an amazing £500 at the city's half marathon this month, all in aid of the charitable work of Saving Lives. Afrah Riaz and…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 32
So, after my pictorial debut week sneakily sliced salami-style into two to bulk up the seemingly bottomless viper-pit of missing blogs, we are now back onto familiar territory: general waffle,…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 31
This is the cheeky sequel of a two-episode series, the first being week 30, which in turn was a sly follow-on to week 29 – so for anyone with sufficient…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 30
First up in the inaugural picture blog is thanaka. This an ochre coloured bark-paste which adorns so many of the Burmese faces and is always applied to the cheeks and…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 29
Pondering as I tend to when faced with a blank page and looking for the inspirational heavenly thunderbolt to strike and get me past ‘Go’ (not helped by a yet-to-be…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 28
Blogs can easily become a process of self-indulgent navel-gazing, embellished without contradiction and, like the Christmas letter from the hedge-fund managing cousin with her Cambridge-destined children, full of successes achieved…
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NHS Digital prohibited from data sharing with the Home Office on immigration offences
Dr Sarah Wollaston MP Yesterday, May 9th 2018, the Government accepted the principle of an amendment to the Data Protection Bill tabled by Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair of the…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 27
There are many things that slip me by and snakes in the grass is one of them, mainly because except for the not-so-scary adder they don’t present a major public…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 26
Unless you’ve experienced it, and seeing the pics is definitely not an alternative, the Burmese New Year ‘Water Festival’ or Thingyan is an absolutely crazy time when you have to…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 25
Not to break the habit of a Myanmar lifetime this blog is now five weeks late and so, if there is an avid reader whose life feels empty without reading…
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Saving Lives Collaborates on Award-Winning Research
We are delighted that Doctor Matthew Page, Clinical Research Fellow at Birmingham Heartlands HIV service and University of Birmingham, won the Best Sexual Health Oral Presentation award at the 4th joint…
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APPG launches ‘Eliminating Hepatitis C in England’ inquiry report
Eliminating Hepatitis C in England report The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Liver Health has published its ‘Eliminating Hepatitis C in England’ report, following a launch event in Parliament with speakers including Norman…
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Saving Lives reaffirms support for access to PrEP to prevent HIV
The Saving Lives charity reaffirms its support for greater access to PrEP to those most at risk to help prevent HIV infections. This morning BBC Radio 4's Today Programme aired…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 21
A couple of noteworthy events (well to me anyway) happened very soon after I arrived in the New Year. I failed to mention them in week 20 so forgive the…
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Ed Wilkins in Myanmar: Week 20
The hardest thing about writing a blog is making yourself do it. I’ve now been in Myanmar 24 weeks but in the last ten months have managed only 19 blogs.…
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