Category: Positive People
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An excellent piece was broadcast on this morning’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today, in relation to the Keele University study of older people living with HIV. The piece doesn’t feature Saving Lives or any of our advocates, but it could have done: we campaign daily against stigma of this sort, and you should visit…
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Two of our Saving Lives Positive Ambassadors, Shamim and Eric, appear in a piece in today’s G2 supplement of the Guardian: It is estimated by Saving Lives, an HIV awareness charity, that 110 people are HIV-positive and working in the NHS. It can only be estimated of course, because some – we don’t know how many…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, and one of our Positive Ambassadors, Tom, appeared this morning on the Victoria Derbyshire show with the Terrence Higgins Trust chief executive, Nick Partridge. There was a wide-ranging discussion about HIV, stigma and the clinical community, in the light of the lifting of a ban on people living with…
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Our Positive Ambassador, Tom, who blogs as ukpositivelad, has been taking to the airwaves today, discussing HIV, home testing and stigma. Here are his thoughts, taken from his latest post: I ended up being booked onto a train only a couple of hours later, a car met me at Euston and took me to my…
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Saving Lives positive ambassador, Tom, will be walking out at the start of tomorrow’s ICC Champions Trophy final in support of those living with HIV in the UK and worldwide. He’ll be acting as a UNAIDS ambassador and promoting both the Thinkwise campaign and the Saving Lives charity. It’s an absolutely fantastic opportunity for him…
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Let’s start at the beginning. I grew up in rural Worcestershire, the – finishing school in 2002. Now, sex education back in Worcestershire had been patchy (and that’s being polite) – I left school knowing very little about the world of sex, basically all I knew was that sex was for procreation and that giving birth…
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With great sadness we must report that, on Friday 31st May, one of our founding Saving Lives ambassadors, Peter Kamara, died whilst undergoing liver transplant. We have known Peter since 2006, when he was diagnosed, very late, with both HIV and Hepatitis-B. Peter responded extremely well to HIV treatment. But unfortunately he was discovered to…
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It’s a simple choice for me, I stand up for what I believe in and I’m one of those people who want to get involved in causes that represent my life and who I am as a person, that doesn’t mean I have to become the issues, I’m still me. I can’t stand apathy, I…
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Before I begin this blog, I would just like to highlight how lucky I feel. Strange, you may think, for someone who’s had my news to feel lucky – but read on and you might understand why. For some time now – around 18 months to 2 years – I’ve been feeling unwell with one…
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We’re attending the 19th annual conference of the British HIV Association in Manchester this week, having some great conversations with colleagues and friends about how to raise HIV testing awareness even higher in the coming year. We have a stand in the Exhibition Hall, so if you’re in Manchester for the conference at any point,…