Category: Sport

  • SPORTS STARS ENDORSE HIV AWARENESS ‘CAMPAIGN IN A BOX’

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    A national HIV awareness charity, Saving Lives, has signed up a series of international sporting stars to stress the importance of HIV testing as part of an innovative marketing campaign set to launch this month to coincide with the very first National HIV Testing Week (Nov 23rd – Dec 1st, World AIDS Day). Saving Lives…

  • New ‘What Is HIV?’ Booklet!

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    To coincide with our forthcoming Saving Lives Avengers campaigns – keep an eye on billboards and buses near you towards the end of this month! – we’ve launched a new booklet. Answering common questions, and calming common fears, about HIV, the booklet attempts to demystify the virus and testing for it – with just a little help…

  • Aviva 2012 Trials

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    Some of our ambassadors and advocates are performing this weekend at the UK Trials: 22-6-12 100 Meter Heats, 17.00 – Julian Thomas 23-6-12  Shot Put Finals, 13.20 – Ros Gonse 1500m Women’s Heats, 14.40 – Hannah England 24-6-12  100m Men’s semi final, 16.52 – JT? 100m Men’s Final, 18.17 – JT? 200m Men’s Heats, 3pm…

  • Jordana Freemantle Retains Title

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    Our Sport Saving Lives advocate, Jordana Freemantle, retained her title of British Bench Press Champion last month by winning the British Bench Press Championships that took place in Northampton, over the weekend of the 11th and 12th of February.  Jordana bench-pressed 90kg in order to take the title for the second year running.  Furthermore, she…

  • Jordana Selected for Great Britain!

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      At the recent British Weightlifting Championships, our Sport Saving Lives advocate, Jordana Freemantle, won second place overall. This is a fantastic achievement which sets her up for further success later this year. “It was a very close competition,” Jordana explains. “I was ahead by 5kg leading into the deadlift – however, I was not…

  • British Athletes Launch National Sport Saving Lives Campaign

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    Four British athletes and one world class coach will join forces with the national Saving Lives team to mark the launch of “Sport Saving Lives” this weekend  at the UK  Athletics championships at  the Alexander Stadium  Birmingham. Sport Saving Lives  is an arm of the national HIV awareness campaign Saving Lives, which emphasizes the importance…

  • Julian Thomas Q&A

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    200m sprinter Julian Thomas is competing at the end of this month in the UK Championships, to be held at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium. In this Q&A, he discusses his hopes for the future and his support for the HIV public awareness campaign, Saving Lives. Q: You enter the UK championships this month in good shape…

  • Somto Eruchie Q&A

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    Somto Eruchie is a 400m sprinter and also works as a phlebotomist at Birmingham’s City Hospital. He is due to compete at the end of the month in the UK Championships, at the second city’s Alexander Stadium. Here he talks about his background, his goals in athletics, and his support for the HIV awareness campaign,…

  • British Athletes Help Launch Saving Lives

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    Two leading British athlete are helping to launch HIV awareness campaign Sport Saving Lives as sporting ambassadors, to help spread the word about the importance of HIV testing in the fight against HIV. Julian Thomas and Somto Eruchie, both 200m sprinters with the Birchfield Harriers team, are based at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. Both are…