Tag: uk


  • New PrEP interaction checker launches

    The University of Liverpool, working with the centre for experimental therapeutics, has launched a PrEP drug-drug interactions checker. Liverpool PrEP Interactions is a free tool that allows people taking PrEP to check for drug interactions that might interfere with the way their PrEP, or their other medications, might work. This new tool follows on from…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Birmingham Positive Peers, the only organisation in the West Midlands to offer peer support services to people living with HIV regardless of their gender, sexuality, ethnicity or background, is now part of the Saving Lives UK family. The group, which will be known as ‘Positive Peers’ going forward,  has served patients in the UK’s second…

  • 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…

  • In the week that Mary Berry announced she wouldn’t be staying with Great British Bake Off once it moves to Channel 4, Brangelina announced that they were divorcing and we were told that 200bn Daddy Long Legs were on their way to the UK…   HIV Charity Medfash is set to close by the end of…

  • On the week when Team GB were completely smashing it and bringing back the Gold at Rio 2016, a 400 year old shark was found in Greenland and Donald Trump was still saying crazy things…   NHS England launches Public Consultation on PrEP In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen NHS England lose a…