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#UequalsU. #909090. Am I speaking gibberish or in code? Not at all, and you should know why. If you already know what U=U and 90/90/90 means then stop reading now – and go and educate someone that doesn’t. That might sound harsh , but the trouble is that those of us that spend time on…
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STOKE CITY, alongside many of the country’s other top sides, are proud to be working with the national charity Saving Lives for World AIDS Day – and the message is that we can all make a difference! Today is World AIDS Day and new data released by Public Health England shows there are still more…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, speaks in this brand new podcast about this year’s World AIDS Day: where we’ve come from, where we are … and where we’re going. For the first time, many organisations, including the British HIV Association, are stating that U=U – or Undetectable equals Untransmittable. This is a huge step,…
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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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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, too. To mark the beginning of this year’s National HIV Testing Week, we have redesigned and reissued out Clinical Inidcator leaflets … And we’re making…
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Time for a bit of history about MAM. Started by a husband-wife doctoring team (Frank Smithuis formerly of MSF and Ni Ni Tun) (right) nearly a decade ago when they took over a closing MSF facility in a desperately poor part of Yangon, it has grown despite numerous obstacles into a slick organisation fulfilling its…
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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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Now as blog first paragraphs go, what follows would be oddly described in my teenage years and in the company of my long-haired hippy university peers as ‘heavy’, so apologies. But what is happening in Myanmar is just like a sequel in a box-set of ‘life-of-a country’ series. And it seems to transpire nearly every…
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As any nursery child will proudly inform you, six minus two equals four: and that’s my blog debt to date. And it’s also true that the perennially patient web-keepers who oversee the sites where these embarrassing missives are published are looking elsewhere for someone to take over my role. But, unfortunately for them and for…
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I realise now that if you write a blog, you tend to gravitate to the same old topics which can be a tad tedious for readers but is comfortable home territory for the author who, if like me, starts and finishes penning these without any idea as to what he’s going to tap out on…
