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Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (17 Feb 2021)

Frank Feighan: The HSE is currently piloting a free home STI/HIV testing service, supported by the Sláintecare Integration Fund, in Dublin, Cork and Kerry. The first phase of tests were made available early January and additional tests will be made available over the coming months. Tests are being made available in a phased manner to ensure there is sufficient capacity in local clinics for service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (17 Feb 2021)

Frank Feighan: The HSE is currently piloting a free home STI/HIV testing service, supported by the Sláintecare Integration Fund, in Dublin, Cork and Kerry. The first phase of tests were made available early January and additional tests will be made available over the coming months. Tests are being made available in a phased manner to ensure there is sufficient capacity in local clinics for service...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...million to the Global Fund to end AIDS, TB and Malaria, and €3 million to Gavi - supporting our partner multilateral agencies, sustaining health systems and ensuring attention to other diseases including HIV and AIDS, Malaria and TB. Ireland also continues to support key partner multilateral agencies, such as UNICEF and multilateral development banks, who are also playing an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries: Discussion (9 Feb 2021) See 6 other results from this debate

...to Medicines Ireland is a membership group, an organisation of relevant workers. We are honoured to be joined by Ms Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, and a leading advocate of the People's Vaccine Alliance. To date, more than 3,600 people have died from Covid-19 in Ireland, and more than 2.3 million people have died globally....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...of €15 million to the Global Fund to end AIDS, TB and Malaria, and €3 million to Gavi - supporting our partner multilateral agencies, sustaining health systems and ensuring attention to other diseases including HIV and AIDS, Malaria and TB. Ireland also continues to support key partner multilateral agencies, such as UNICEF and multilateral development banks, who are also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (4 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 198. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to accommodate those who require HIV testing but are unable to pay the fee currently required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6064/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...of €15 million to the Global Fund to end AIDS, TB and Malaria, and €3 million to Gavi - supporting our partner multilateral agencies, sustaining health systems and ensuring attention to other diseases including HIV and AIDS, Malaria and TB. Ireland also continues to support key partner multilateral agencies, such as UNICEF and multilateral development banks, who are also...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: HIV Incidence (27 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new HIV diagnoses in each of the years from 2010 to 2020, by gender in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4275/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 825. To ask the Minister for Health if additional supports have been made available for those living with HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4276/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: HIV-AIDS Programmes (27 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 826. To ask the Minister for Health if regular HIV testing is ongoing at the same or a reduced rate; if it has halted due to the closure of sexual health clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National LGBTI+ Strategy (13 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...in regular contact with relevant LGBTI+ stakeholders and organisations. Key initiatives delivered under the National Sexual Health Strategy and of clear benefit to the LGBTI+ community include HIV Ireland's MPOWER and the Man2man programmes, the HIV Fast Track Cities initiative, the national PrEP programme, expansion of the National Condom Distribution Service and expansion of the HPV...

Seanad: Access to Contraception: Motion (15 Dec 2020)

Frank Feighan: ...in the future. Senator Clifford-Lee felt that this might not be enough. This service includes migrants, young people, gay, bisexual and other MSM, sex workers, those with addiction issues and those with HIV. Take-up of the service has doubled. Senator Clifford-Lee is correct that we need to do more in this respect. She also wanted this prioritised. I will bring that back to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ... provides for the disregard of certain compensation awards when assessing the means of a person.  These disregards include, for example, all income derived from compensation awarded by the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and in relation to disability caused by Thalidomide.  Any payment made by the Residential...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Equality Issues (3 Dec 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Brian Leddin: ...later joined by the Limerick AIDS Alliance in the same building. Those two services, with other services in Limerick, merged to form GOSHH, which stands for gender, orientation, sexual health and HIV, in the past decade. GOSHH provides a vital range of services in the mid-west, including counselling, training and operating as a focal point for the community. Can the Minister provide...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2020)

Martin Conway: .... It is not as big a challenge as it was, but it is still a challenge and we cannot forget that because much work continues to be done and needs to be done in the eradication of AIDS and dealing with HIV, particularly in Third World and developing countries. We should redouble our efforts and commitment as a country to funding programmes in the developing world to help combat the spread...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sexually Transmitted Infections (1 Dec 2020) See 3 other results from this debate

Jerry Buttimer: ...Gníomhaigh. I welcome the Minister of State to the House today, World AIDS Day. This is a worldwide health day with the theme of global solidarity and shared responsibility in fighting the stigma of HIV and AIDS in our country and in the world. I tabled this matter and I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing both myself and Senator Warfield to raised two different Commencement...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Provision (1 Dec 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...an Uachtaráin on World AIDS Day in 2017 when the President, Michael D. Higgins, said, "Those who suffered the most in the 1980s were those exposed not only to a prejudice born of misunderstanding of HIV and AIDS, but also to other forms of social oppression which were, and are, too often manifested in our society." So many of the people I am proud to remember fought incredibly hard...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (26 Nov 2020)

Mark Daly: ...on the nursing homes support scheme. I have also received notice from Senator Jerry Buttimer of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the national awareness campaign on HIV-related stigma to coincide with World AIDS Day on 1 December 2020. I have also received notice from Senator Emer Currie of the following matter: The need for the...

Seanad: Reopening Ireland (Department of Health): Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...that now include a full sexual health service, a pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, service, a hepatitis A and B and HPV vaccine programme, and counselling as well. We all know that STI tests and HIV tests cost a considerable amount of money privately. The staff in the gay men's health service, GMHS, are world class, and I have first-hand experience of that. The service was closed in March...