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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…

  • PRESS RELEASE  23-8-2011 McCarthy and his Wolves pitch in to field national awareness campaign Mick McCarthy and a team of his top players from Wolverhampton Wanderers have joined the National HIV Saving Lives Trust, leading the way for its football campaign.  Saving Lives is aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of early HIV…

  • We’ve designed some wallpaper for your compute desktop, to mark the great support given to us by Wolverhampton Wanderers – make this your wallpaper, and fly the Wolves and the Saving Lives colours, all at the same time! They’re available in five resolutions for your convenience. 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1280×960 1600×1200

  • We recently paid to trip to Molineux, to get the thoughts of some of our Football Saving Lives advocates onto video. Wolverhampton Wanderers are supporting the campaign terrifically, and we’re grateful for the time of the club, its management and players. You can click on the thumbnails below to view exclusive YouTube videos…    …

  • As the new season gets underway, the time seems right to offer our congratulations and best wishes to Football Saving Lives advocate Ben Foster, who has joined West Bromwich Albion on a season-long loan. Baggies coach Roy Hodgson has said: “He was always the goalkeeper that we targeted as our number one choice for the…

  • Delay to testing and treatment; stigma, beliefs and fears Today I was speaking to a man who had been diagnosed with HIV for 9 years. Unfortunately he has suspected Tuberculosis, an extremely common infection in Swaziland, particularly amongst the HIV population.  We got to talking about how he became infected with HIV; he told me…

  • International Saving Lives volunteer Emma Wilson will be blogging over the next few weeks from the Swaziland. Yesterday she wrote about the role of the community health promoter, and about a woman called Máke in particular. Today she writes about her experience of going out in the country with her … — In this picture…

  • In the USA today, the Center for Disease Control has released important figures about the spread of HIV. The headline figure, as an excellent piece in the New York Times has it, is that new HIV infections have remained steady: Despite years of great progress in treating AIDS, the number of new infections with the virus…

  • “Máke” in si swati means “mother”; it is a very appropriate name for a lady I met who works as a rural health promoter. Rural health promoters are people that live in the community who try to improve the access to medical care by either making people who are sick go to hospital or, if…

  • 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…