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Saving Lives Positive Ambassador Luke was recently diagnosed with HIV – and spoke this morning on Radio 5 Live with a man who was diagnosed in 1982 about the changing perceptions of HIV. Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, also appeared, discussing the latest HIV figures issued by Public Health England, next week’s National HIV…
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Public Health England has today published its annual report into HIV in the UK. Download the report These figures cover 2013. We will be breaking down the results for you in the coming days and weeks, but the headline facts are fairly straightforward: HIV infections are continuing to rise, and increased HIV testing is still…
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Public Health England has today published its annual report into HIV in the UK. It is available in PDF format here. These figures cover 2013. We will be breaking down the results for you in the coming days and weeks, but the headline facts are fairly straightforward: HIV infections are continuing to rise, and increased…
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This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Written with Dan Hartland, Director of Operations at the Saving Lives Charity We launched the HIV awareness charity Saving Lives because we believed that stigma has a real and measurable impact on health. Prejudice impacts upon how people behave, how readily they visit their doctor about a…
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Chelsea Ladies left back and England start Clare Rafferty (@clrafferty1) is one of the first of our footballing ambassadors to take the Selfie Saving Lives plunge! Our National HIV Testing Week campaign involves asking volunteers to grab one of our downloadable flashcards, take a selfie and then tweet it to use, their followers and our special…
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Chelsea Ladies left back and England start Clare Rafferty (@clrafferty1) is one of the first of our footballing ambassadors to take the Selfie Saving Lives plunge! Our National HIV Testing Week campaign involves asking volunteers to grab one of our downloadable flashcards, take a selfie and then tweet it to use, their followers and our special…
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We have a very exciting campaign lined up for National HIV Testing Week – which this year also coincides with European HIV Testing Week. Awareness-raising will culminate, of course, on World AIDS Day, December 1st. This year, we’ve got another of our campaigns planned which really will get everyone involved: celebrities, positive ambassadors, members of…
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HIV Testing saves lives. That means HIV awareness saves lives – so how do we raise awareness? Easy: by taking and tweeting a selfie with a message.
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We have a very exciting campaign lined up for National HIV Testing Week – which this year also coincides with European HIV Testing Week. Awareness-raising will culminate, of course, on World AIDS Day, December 1st. This year, we’ve got another of our campaigns planned which really will get everyone involved: celebrities, positive ambassadors, members of…
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A very important, and in some quarters controversial, study has been published this week which presents evidence that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is “highly protective” against HIV for gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM). In PrEP, antiretroviral drugs are given to HIV-negative people – for instance, partners of an HIV-positive person, or…
