Category: Football
-
Two Welsh international footballers are supporting the UK-wide charity Saving Lives to get across a simple message: when it comes to HIV, stigma kills. Saving Lives is a charity promoting HIV testing as a way of fighting a virus which affects 100,000 people in the UK. One fifth of those people have no idea they…
-
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…
-
Saving Lives would like to extend its huge congratulations to Sam Vokes, Wayne Hennessey and the Welsh FA for their side’s incredible performance so far at at the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. Sam and Wayne have been ambassadors for Saving Lives for a long time now, and it’s fantastic to see them getting such well-deserved…
-
Saving Lives ambassador Nathan Redmond has been signed by Southampton – great news for Nathan, who’s also an England Under-21 international. He has agreed a five-year contract with the Saints. “Southampton like to play attacking football and it’s a style I feel I can really fit in well with,” Nathan said. His previous club, Norwich City, was relegated at…
-
Saving Lives Football Ambassador Jack Butland collected his Vauxhall Under-21s England Player of the Year award this week. Jack won the accolade back in January with 54% of the public vote – but finally got his hands on the trophy on Tuesday. Congratulations, Jack! Fantastic to see you get this sort of recognition – much deserved!
-
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…
-
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…
-
National HIV Testing Week begins on Saturday, 21st November – and from then right up until the end of World AIDS Day on December 1st, we’ll be raising awareness – and providing testing. Thanks to HIVtestuk.com we are able to provide free postal HIV test during NHTW. Watch the how-to videos below, and help us…
-
During National HIV Testing Week we have teamed up with www.HIVTESTUK.com to offer free confidential postal HIV kits for you use. Watch the how to do it videos here: Video 1, Video 2. Don’t forget to download our fantastic free NHTW posters to raise awareness at your place of work. Also during testing week, why not…
-
We promised more details … and with four days lest until National HIV Testing Week, here they are: some more images of some of the ambassadors signed up for 2015’s campaign. This year, we’ll be raising awareness and offering 1000 free postal HIV tests to anyone in the country via HIVTestUK.com.. Our latest slate of…