Tag: 2017
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Saving Lives has produced a range of resources for organisations and individuals to use for free to help mark World AIDS Day 2017. At home in the UK there are approximately 100,000 people living with HIV today – but more than 10,000 of these don’t know that they have the virus. The need for continued…
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New data released from Public Health England marks a turning point in the UK’s fight against HIV after large reductions in new HIV cases in 2016. The report Towards Elimination of HIV transmission, AIDS and HIV-related deaths in the UK, released today, shows an overall reduction in new cases of HIV by 18% compared to 2015…
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A new paper from medical journal The Lancet has reported that people with HIV diagnosed today can expect the same life expectancy of the general population. For years now we’ve referred to people living with HIV as having a “near normal” life expectancy, but according to this paper from The Lancet we’ve now reached…