Tag: birmingham
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The HIV awareness charity, Saving Lives, worked across National HIV Testing Week to raise awareness of HIV as well as the challenges still faced by people living with the virus. National HIV Testing Week ran from 9th to 15th February 2026 across the UK. Charities, NHS trusts and local government collaborated nationwide to raise awareness…
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Birmingham creatives are joining forces to give voice to people living with HIV in time for this year’s World AIDS Day – and they want the wider public to pay attention. Dancers, actors and visual artists will be performing and exhibiting their work at venues across the city centre on December 1st. And in every…
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Saving Lives One Blood Test at a Time … Great news just in from our home city… starting today, Tuesday 18th March 2025, all patients aged 16 and over who have bloods taken at the emergency departments of Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals in Birmingham will be also be tested for HIV, hepatitis B, and…
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The roll-out of opt-out testing across forty-seven sites nationwide hits the West Midlands today. All patients aged 16 and over attending the emergency department at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital will now be routinely tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections if they are already having a blood test taken. This fantastic progress will…
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Birmingham based HIV charity, Saving Lives UK, marks World AIDS Day 2021 by donating £3,000 towards the building of Birmingham’s AIDS & HIV memorial. Saving Lives UK has been a proud supporter of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial (BAHM), offering administrative and governance support throughout the process. Today, on World AIDS Day 2021, the…
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The Saving Lives charity has welcomed the latest HIV data from Public Health England and is calling for a renewed focus on tackling both late diagnoses and undiagnosed populations outside London. On the 16th January 2020 Public Health England released its annual ‘HIV in the United Kingdom‘ report. The report made for compelling reading, and…
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Saturday 1st December 2018 marks thirty years of observing World AIDS Day Over thirty years has passed since the first HIV diagnosis in the UK, and in that thirty years we’ve made some incredible progress towards ending HIV and improving life for those living with the virus – but there’s still much more to…
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Saving Lives, our volunteers and ambassadors will be undertaking health promotion around Birmingham on 1st December (World Aids Day), in co-operation with local partners Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service. We’ll be joined, too, by some of the Heartlands HIV Service’s nurses and staff – so look out for the team, and come and say hello! The Saving…
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We’ll be promoting our new postal testing serving, TakeATestUK, at Birmingham PRIDE this weekend. Via special voucher codes included on leaflets we’ll be distributing to revellers, individuals will be able to access a few HIV testing kit via the online request widget at the TakeATestUK website. Our testing service is another of our answers to…