Tag: world aids day
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Rams striker Darren Bent is giving his support to a national charity looking to fight stigma during this year’s National HIV Testing Week. Saving Lives promotes the importance of HIV testing in fighting the virus. This year they are sending a simple message: stigma kills, and testing saves lives. “You may not want to get…
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Hull Tigers captain Curtis Davies is supporting the national charity Saving Lives to promote HIV testing and beat stigma during this year’s National HIV Testing Week. Curtis has been an ambassador for the charity since its launch five years ago and is currently its patron. This year he is helping Saving Lives send a simple…
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Blues Club Captain Paul Robinson and and the side’s longest-serving current player, Jonathan Spector, have leant their support to the Brum-based national charity Saving Lives in a bid to improve the second city’s health through HIV testing. More than 18,000 people in the UK are infected with HIV without knowing their status. Saving Lives promotes the simple…
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A leading HIV awareness charity is promoting HIV testing, and combating stigma, during this year’s National HIV Testing Week – by employing the power of new technologies. Saving Lives is a national charity with the aim of reducing the amount of undiagnosed HIV in the UK. Through its network of celebrity ambassadors, and advocates living…
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This World AIDS Day, our message is simple: stop the stigma. As our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, recently wrote on the Huffington Post, “It is within our grasp to control HIV, defeat the stigma that still surrounds it, and make individuals and the community alike healthier.” So for World AIDS Day our message is…
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As part of our World AIDS Day awareness raising, we’ve launched a twibbon you can apply to your avatar on Twitter. The Stop The Stigma twibbon is a great way of showing your support this World AIDS Day – and sending the message that together we can beat stigma and improve the health of all our…
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Marking this year’s National HIV Testing Week (NHTW, 21st November), the HIV awareness-raising charity Saving Lives, in collaboration with Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service, are launching www.HIVTestUK.com, an innovative free postal HIV testing service. The campaign has the support of a range of sporting and celebrity ambassadors, including Premiership footballers, Olympic medalists, and DJs – and has…
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In the video above, Dr Steve Taylor offers a message to healthcare professionals for National HIV Testing Week and World AIDS Day.
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National HIV Testing Week begins on November 21st, and from then until the very end of World AIDS Day on December 1st, our Saving Lives ambassadors will be raising awareness and promoting free postal HIV testing through HIVTestUK.com. Our support this year comes from a fantastic range of ambassadors from the world of sport and…