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Aston Villa captain and Bulgarian international Stiliyan Petrov has agreed to become patron of Football Saving Lives. The HIV awareness campaign, which seeks to educate football fans about the importance of HIV testing, focuses on communicating with an audience often under-exposed to HIV messages. One in four of those with HIV in the UK are…
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The Government last week issued its response to the HIV report produced by Lord Fowler’s committee in July (which you can read here). The document, which has been made available in PDF format by the Department of Health, is 31 pages in length and indicates to some extent the current Government’s position on HIV and…
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Valerie Delpech is the Health Protection Agency’s Head of HIV Statistics, and also one of our advisers. Our advisers provide key know-how and input which informs our campaigns and messages, as well as offering important advocacy in crucial corners of the HIV world. We’re enormously grateful to Valerie and all our advisers for offering their…
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Tim Deal, who performs under the name ‘The Dealer’, has joined us as a Music Saving Lives advocate. A songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and artist, Tim has written for the likes of Alesha Dixon, The Wanted, Kylie Minogue and The Saturdays (for whom he scored a UK top 3 with ‘All Fired Up’ – their up-coming Arena…
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Emma Brown, an exciting new singing talent based in London, has joined Saving Lives as an advocate. The student at Goldsmith’s University of London is a genre-bending artist with a distinctive style and powerful vocals, and is joining Saving Lives in order to help us communicate our messages ever further afield. An artist partial to…
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It had been 11 days since I first met Sibelo and I had been busy doing various things around the hospital, as well as visiting another completely different private hospital in a sugar plantation. In the meantime this gentleman had been to see the HIV specialist who had done a brief medical assessment of him…
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Another of our correspondents in Swaziland, Charlie, writes about an unusual case he recently encountered on the same day Emma was delivering her condom promotion classes … During a day spent in the rural community, during a teaching session on condom promotion. I was approached by an elderly lady and asked if she could speak…
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Following on from our previous teaching day in the village, we decided to teach whomever wanted to come along about the importance of condoms and how to use them. We set off at the break of dawn and made the long journey back to the rural village armed with 60 bananas and 100 condoms.…
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No food: During our teaching at the school, we made sure that questions were invited and that everyone should be free to ask anything. Problems that were commonly addressed included, “What should I do if I don’t have any food to take my ARVs with? How should I get food?” If you take the ARVs…
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The long walk to the village with Maké Today I organised along with Make and a primary school teacher to teach 30-40 people who live in a village about HIV. I really had no idea what to expect about the lesson, however I prepared an introduction and 2 stories in order to get across our…
