Category: Positive People
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Our positive advocates are people living with HIV who help us devise and deliver the right awareness messages to the public. Chris Kearl has been living with HIV since the infections earliest days, and has a moving story to tell about the difficult days of the 1980s, the improvement in treatment, the continued problem of…
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Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children living with the virus that causes AIDS. The data is being presented at CROI today at 11.30 am – and our Medical Director, HIV…
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James is currently our featured advocate in our Positive People section. His story includes the classic symptoms of a ‘seroconversion illness’, the sickness people often experience shortly after being infected with HIV, but can mistake for the ‘flu. Missing the seroconversion illness, and not getting the test early as James did, can result in not…
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The Health Protection Agency has announced a 26% increase in the number of men who have sex with men (MSM) having sexual intercourse without using condoms. This latest report follows news released last November that record numbers of people in the UK are living with HIV and another report released earlier this year concluded the…
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Joan is currently our featured advocate on the Positive People page. You can listen to an interview with her, and also read her story. I’m still uncertain as to when I contracted HIV. I’m in a long-term, loving marriage and am far from the stereotype people may have in their minds about ‘the sort of…
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In the latest edition of Positively UK magazine, one of the founding directors of Saving Lives, Dan Hartland, writes about public advocacy and disclosure as a kind of activism: We rely on advocates who are living with HIV to help us devise our messages and communicate the realities of today’s HIV-positive people. We’ve benefited from…
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We’re proud to announce the addition of another positive advocate – and one with a real talent for expressing himself. Phil’s fantastic new piece for us, about his experience of being diagnosed and then living with HIV, can be read in our Positive People section here. It’s a must read, particularly since Phil’s a great…
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We’re delighted that Tyler Curry, writer and ‘intellectual vagabond’, has agreed to featured on our Positive People pages. We’re honoured to have so many inspiring individuals living with HIV agree to become advocates for our charity, and Tyler’s story – which you can now read here – is fantastic. Tyler maintains a regular blog at the Huffington…
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The Stand Tall Get Snapped project is a fantastic photography exhibition which documents the lives of 30 people living with HIV. Many of them featured on our own Positive People pages, and you can read more here. Edo and the rest of the team behind the project have been attracting a lot of much-deserved attention…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, appeared on BBC News 24 on December 1st, World AIDS Day, discussing the current HIV situation both in the UK and worldwide. You can watch the report that preceded his interview as well as his remarks below: We also featured on both Radio 4 and Radio 5, recordings of…