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We like to be comprehensive at Saving Lives, so, following our coverage yesterday of the great routine testing programme being rolled out at Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, here’s another encouraging story from Manchester: “Patients being admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary are being routinely offered HIV screening as part of a new policy to boost detection…
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Here’s a fantastic news story from the BBC: Chelsea and Westminster and St Mary’s Hospitals have begun to offer HIV tests to patients in their accident and emergency departments. This is precisely the sort of normalisation of HIV testing that Saving Lives campaigns for. Dr Ann Sullivan, Consultant Physician at Chelsea and Westminster, is quoted in…
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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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While our delegation to the Provicinal Health Bureau of Henan was in China last week, encouraging news was emerging from the country about the numbers of HIV-related deaths being experienced there. “Efforts to improve access to HIV drugs in China have cut deaths by more than 60% in seven years, researchers say,” you could read…
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The results of a study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US has found that early drug treatment can prevent onward transmission. Its data was so conclusive that the trial – slated to continue into 2015 – has been halted earlier than planned. There was a ninety-six per cent reduction…
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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,…
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Louise and two HIV-positive patient advocates appeared this morning on BBC Radio WM’s Andrew Peach show. You can listen to the segment below, which focuses on the experiences of HIV-positive people today, and on the importance of HIV testing. We’re immensely proud of our patient advocates for coming onto the show with Louise, and want…
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The Chief Executive of one of the UK’s largest Foundation Trusts, and patron of the national “Saving Lives Campaign”, has welcomed the new guidance from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) on HIV testing. Dr Mark Newbold, chief executive of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, welcomed the new guidelines as “very important”, and…
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The Midlands derby between Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers today will see Saving Lives join forces with Sexual Health Birmingham to deliver a simple message: get tested for HIV (and other Sexually Transmitted Infections), and get the treatment you may need. This will keep us all safer, and save lives. We’ll be ticketing the crowd…
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Many, many congratulations to Birmingham City for their victory in the Carling Cup Final on Sunday – a line-up featuring some of our very own All Star patrons defeated Arsenal 2 goals to 1 in order to lift the Blues’ first trophy in 48 years. That’s a huge achievement for Alex McLeish and his team,…
