On Sunday 1st December the Martin Fisher Foundation joined with other organisations in Brighton and Hove to remember those we have lost to HIV. We continue to move forward with the goal of ZERO new cases of HIV and ZERO stigma around HIV. We are so proud of our bus designed by the wonderful Daniel … Read more
What an amazingly sunny day we for the fourth Brighton and Hove Triathlon on 15th September 2019. The Martin Fisher Foundation was represented by 8 teams in the Sprint Relay and one team in the Olympic Relay and placed second in each Relay! Our swimmers swam 750m in open sea, our cyclists pedalled for … Read more
The Martin Fisher Foundation would like to thank everyone for coming to the bus launch and the media coverage. Read more about the bus here. The first HIV themed bus in Brighton & Hove and the UK.
On Saturday 5th October we launched the Martin Fisher Foundation Bus at Hove Lawns, Brighton and Hove. This is the first ever HIV themed public information bus in the UK and possibly worldwide. Over 67 million people travel on the buses in a year in Brighton and Hove and they will get to read up … Read more
For this year’s Brighton and Hove Pride Festival we choose for our charity the theme of tackling HIV stigma and the message that U=U. This means that someone with an undetectable HIV viral load (meaning they are on effective treatment that has completely suppressed the virus) cannot transmit the virus to their partner. Undetectable = Untransmittable! … Read more
Well, what an amazing event organised by Aiden Bex! We raised over £2300 for the Martin Fisher Foundation through raffles sales and charity buckets. We sold over £1000 in raffle tickets and the wonderful Glencairn Consulting Ltd matched that amount. Wow! It is incredible. We can’t thank Aiden enough and his amazing talented contributors for … Read more
We are delighted that the Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company will be naming one of their buses after Professor Martin Fisher, an outstanding leader in the field of HIV Medicine who built a world class service here in Brighton. Everyone is invited to join the Martin Fisher Foundation for the celebration of the … Read more
Well…. Alan took down his net lace curtains and found some paint sprays. Off to Gill’s for her expertise with a sewing machine and then Julia and Sarah working wonders with brightly coloured tape and bamboo sticks. What have we got – Lace U=U flags for the Martin Fisher Foundation team to wave at the … Read more
We have published a study in the prestigious BMJ STI journal describing the development and evaluation of an innovative intervention to improve HIV testing using digital vending machines to deliver HIV self-tests. The user collects a sample of blood and get the results in 15 minutes. The study demonstrated that vending machines to distribute HIV … Read more
Over 20 runners raised money for The Martin Fisher Foundation on Saturday 11th May 2019 at the Brighton Run2Music event. Well done and thank you to our runners and supporters. Our runners braved the wind, the rain and sunshine to complete the 5K run at Maderia Drive on Saturday. Our runners got into the spirit … Read more
