Tag: charity

  • Charity raises awareness during HIV Testing Week

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    The HIV awareness charity, Saving Lives, worked across National HIV Testing Week to raise awareness of HIV as well as the challenges still faced by people living with the virus. National HIV Testing Week ran from 9th to 15th February 2026 across the UK.  Charities, NHS trusts and local government collaborated nationwide to raise awareness…

  • Birmingham HIV peer support services joins Saving Lives family

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    Birmingham Positive Peers, the only organisation in the West Midlands to offer peer support services to people living with HIV regardless of their gender, sexuality, ethnicity or background, is now part of the Saving Lives UK family. The group, which will be known as ‘Positive Peers’ going forward,  has served patients in the UK’s second…

  • Saving Lives charity donates £3000 to Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial

    Birmingham based HIV charity, Saving Lives UK, marks World AIDS Day 2021 by donating £3,000 towards the building of Birmingham’s AIDS & HIV memorial. Saving Lives UK has been a proud supporter of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial (BAHM), offering administrative and governance support throughout the process. Today, on World AIDS Day 2021, the…

  • Saving Lives launches ‘Grassroots Grants 2021’

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    Grassroots Grants: UK HIV and sexual health charity to offer grants to grassroots organisations that work to improve the lives of people living with, or affected by, HIV. Saving Lives, the UK-based HIV and sexual health charity known for its innovative home sampling kits, is today opening applications for three ‘Grassroots Grants’ of £1000 each.…

  • Saving Lives announces winners of Grassroots Grants programme

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    UK based HIV and sexual health charity, announce the winners of their ‘Grassroots Grants’ programme. Saving Lives, the UK-based HIV and sexual health charity known for its innovative home sampling kits, can today announce the winning three applications to their ‘Grassroots Grants’ programme. The grants, of £1000 each,  have been awarded to small groups or…

  • Saving Lives joins calls for a national sexual health strategy

    Charities, including the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH) and the Terrence Higgins Trust, have called on the Government to implement a new sexual health strategy to combat rising rates of STIs in England. A new report from the Terrence Higgins Trust and BASHH has detailed the challenges facing the sexual health &…

  • Social Media as a Health Promotion tool

    Social media is a potentially useful tool in raising awareness about important health issues. Campaigns such as HIV Testing Week ((HTW) 18-24 Nov 2017) generate thousands of tweets by organisations and individuals, with onward sharing potentially reaching many times more people.  We set out to describe the overall tweeting activity before and during HTW, we…

  • News Roundup 23-Sept-2016

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    In the week that Mary Berry announced she wouldn’t be staying with Great British Bake Off once it moves to Channel 4, Brangelina announced that they were divorcing and we were told that 200bn Daddy Long Legs were on their way to the UK…   HIV Charity Medfash is set to close by the end of…

  • News Roundup 08-July-2016

    In a week when we finally got to see the Chilcot Report, the Conservative leadership contest continues to rumble on, and the NASA probe Juno enters orbit around Jupiter after a 540 million mile journey…   Researchers aim to create HIV ‘vaccine’ with a ‘therapeutic virus’ (Engadget) Scientists at the University of Texas think that they may…