Category: Positive People
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Saving Lives hit the airwaves today to help the BBC mark World AIDS Day 2012. Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, featured on both BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and on BBC 5 Live Breakfast – where he was also joined by Saving Lives positive advocate, Katie. You can listen to both segments below. BBC…
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Stand Tall, Get Snapped is a fantastic project which documents the lives of people living with HIV today – and encourages proud and public advocacy. Thanks to Ed and everyone else at the project for allowing us to include some of the fantastic stories that have been recorded by them on our Positive People page –…
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, and a Saving Lives positive advocate, Terry, appeared on BBC Radio WM this week. You can listen to the whole segment using the player below – many thanks to WM and Grant Torrington for giving us all that time. Exposure like this can only help save lives. [audio:http://www.savinglivesuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BBC%20WM%2025th%20July%20Terry%20and%20GT.mp3] …
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As the BBC reports, HIV home testing kits are expected to be on sale in the USA very soon, following their approval by the country’s Food and Drug Administration. BBC WM’s Graham Torrington asked us onto his show last night to talk about this development. You can use the player above to hear the Medical Director…
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A national charity is marking this week’s annual conference of the Children’s HIV Association [CHIVA] by publishing the moving testimonies of mothers infected with HIV. Saving Lives campaigns for greater general awareness of HIV and HIV testing. One in four of those with HIV in the UK do not know they have been infected, and…
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Chris Kearl, a positive advocate for Saving Lives, appeared on BBC Midlands Today this evening as part of a story about the launch of the Saving Lives charity and the support of Premier League football clubs in the region. Chris spoke movingly about his thirty years living with HIV, about the importance of early diagnosis…
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This article from Saturday’s Guardian is well worth a read, featuring Rankin’s new celebrity portraits timed to coincide with the release of the campaigning film, Life In My Shoes. It’s great to see stigma being tackled in so mainstream – and so high-profile – a way. Well done all involved. It is when 18-year-old Blessing…
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David and Daniel, who both work with Saving Lives to promote HIV awareness and reduce stigma, recently featured in an online feature at style bible Dazed & Confused’s website. You can view the story here – the guys have something interesting, and inspiring, things to say about living with HIV. We even get a mention!
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Today marks thirty years since doctors and scientists first identified a handful of patients as HIV-positive. The coverage has been extensive, particularly in the US, where the patients were diagnosed back in 1981. We thought we’d collect the best for the record. Kathleen Sibelius at the Huffington Post Los Angeles Times The New York Times…
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A paper presented at the annual conference of the British HIV Association a few week ago argued that a number of current clinical guidelines do not support, or actively contradict, specialist HIV clinical recommendations that a wide a range as possible of non-HIV specialists such offer HIV tests to their patients. Presented by Martin Fisher,…