Lifeboat Media

28/03/2018

Our friends and Lifeboat contributors from Romania have been busy creating some really nice fashion - if you happen to be in Mamaia / Romania this week-end make sure to visit their stand at "Pavilion Expozițional Mamaia; 28 Martie -1 Aprilie 2018" (March 28th - April 1st) :-)

03/12/2017

01/12/2017

22/09/2017

"Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates." Human trials start next year.

It will enter clinical trials to prevent and treat the infection next year.

12/07/2017

Her contribution to the AIDS response began in the early 1990s during her work with the Society of Women and AIDS in Africa.

13/05/2017

Progress: "Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in 2010 are projected to live 10 years longer than those first using it in 1996"

Newer medications have fewer side effects and are more efficient at stopping the virus.

04/05/2017

Encouraging news that an HIV vaccine could be developed soon: a combination of two new HIV vaccines with a drug usually used to treat cancer has left five HIV patients with no need for daily drugs

A new vaccine-based treatment for HIV has succeeded in suppressing the virus in five patients, raising hopes further research could help prevent Aids without the need for daily drugs. Researchers combined two innovative HIV vaccines with a drug usually used to treat cancer in the trial, conducted ov...

05/03/2017

Our work at Lifeboat Media has been featured in the March 2017 Dutch magazine (number 18) Hello Gorgeous, which focusses on normalising people living with hiv. The article is called "More contact, less stigma" and focusses on our approach to using media as a gentle, humanising intervention. It also highlights the research done by Maastricht University at the end of last year that showed that our media makes a significant impact in terms of fear reduction. It works. Our team is very happy to hear this and hoping to develop more work in combination with organisations that value media that is gentle and doesn't "message" to broad communities - instead, it seeks to begin conversations within smaller communities. Thank You Hello Gorgeous!

022 Nummer 18 is uit. Met dit keer veel aandacht voor vluchtelingen. Op de cover staat de Russische kunstenaar en hiv-activist Demir Demirov. Hij vroeg eind vorig jaar asiel aan in ons land. Ook spreken we met Ibrahim, een homoman met hiv die uit het Midden-Oosten hiernaar toe is gevlucht. Gerrit is...

31/12/2016

Happy New Year to all our friends and colleagues. May 2017 make all your wishes come true :-)

04/12/2016

We're proud and humbled to have had so many wonderful friends, partners and collaborators on our journey from the original web documentary project 'Lifeboat: HIV - Daring to Share' to the series of candid conversations about living with hiv.

Films from both projects have been used in groundbreaking research by Maastricht University to prove that media can reduce hiv stigma.

http://www.lifeboatfilms.org/
https://vimeo.com/lifeboatmedia

01/12/2016

We've done it! Our Lifeboat films have successfully proved that films create empathy and change behaviour.

We presented the result of this groundbreaking research by Maastricht University at the Dutch National SOA Hiv Congress

01/12/2016

We remember our dear friend Narcis today. She was a beautiful and brave human being and we're proud to have met her and worked with her in our original "Lifeboat: HIV - Daring to Share" web-documentary project.

We miss you, dear Narcis! http://www.lifeboatfilms.org/