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Thanks to Aston Villa FC for their support this National HIV Testing Week: Villa players have lent their support to Saving Lives, a national HIV awareness charity based in Birmingham. Saving Lives are attempting to improve the health of the public and the players are helping to spread the message to fans. “There are about…
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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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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…
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Courtesy of our supporters at Aston Villa Football Club, we now have brand new images of our footballing advocates from that club. Dressed in their 2012/13 home and away strips, our advocates are continuing to fly the flag for Saving Lives. [tags=2012] Gary Gardner and Darren Bent feature in our new Saving Lives Avengers campaign.…
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Curtis Davies, one of the Saving Lives Avengers, features in a new video for our new campaign: You can read more about the Saving Lives Avengers and their message here. The campaign will be launching in Birmingham during National HIV Testing Week at the end of November, and featuring on buses, billboards and at bus…
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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…
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The following article – by Dr Steve Taylor, Sexual Health and HIV Specialist at Heartlands Hospital, and Dan Hartland, Director of Operations of Saving Lives – appears today on the BBC Health website. — Many people may be unaware that one facet of the government’s health reforms allows private companies to tender to provide NHS…
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The British HIV Association has today published data from its latest report into HIV testing and diagnosis in the UK, and they’re important reading for anyone interested in improving the HIV situation in this country. In particular, their findings on HIV detection in hospitals are key to understanding why increasing testing and reducing the obstacles…
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Over on the Clubs page, you can now navigate to brand new images of Sunderland football stars Steven Fletcher and Craig Gardner. In their new kits for this season, these players have added their names to our ever-growing list of Premiership footballers supporting our charity and its message. Craig has been an advocate for us…
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The Live Lab Concept was created and founded by the production and songwriting duo Dean Nisbett & Andre Bassing (DNA-Savants) in an attempt to make live music accessible and “cool” to the young Grime/hip-hop generation aspiring to be recording artists. They also started the label the Chromosome in 2010 and signed their first artist (Sever)…
