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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Mr. Jimmy Goulding: I thank the committee for giving me the opportunity to speak about HIV and AIDS issues. I have been living with HIV for the past 23 years and I am a founding member of Positive Now, a voluntary group of people living with HIV. We are representing the voices of people living with HIV at NGO and Government level. Ours is an all-island network and it is a unique and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Addressing and preventing HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is a priority area under the National Sexual Health Strategy. The €450,00 funding referred to by the Deputy has been provided to support Ireland's participation in an international HIV initiative, Fast Track Cities, and to fund early implementation of relevant actions. The HIV Fast Track Cities initiative is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV Incidence (4 Dec 2018)

Catherine Byrne: The HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre advises that the weekly HIV notification reports for 2018 are provisional. I remain concerned about these provisional figures that show a rise in HIV infection. The HIV Annual Report for 2017 from the Centre was recently published. It is the latest annual trend data for HIV in Ireland. The report referred to 492 new diagnoses of HIV in Ireland in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV in Ireland: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Mr. Jimmy Goulding: I thank the committee for inviting me back to speak about HIV stigma and discrimination. The stigma and discrimination that comes along with HIV has a knock-on effect for those of us living with it. It continues to ensure people living with HIV are marginalised. In June 2006, I took a case to the Equality Authority against a health provider who refused to treat me...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (4 Apr 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The most recent information and statistics on the HIV-AIDS epidemic are contained in the annual report, AIDS Epidemic Update 2005, released by the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, and the World Health Organisation, WHO. This report noted progress in declining HIV infection rates in a number of countries and increasing access to HIV treatment. Adult HIV infection rates have...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (25 Oct 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The most recent information and statistics on the HIV/AIDS epidemic are contained in the 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). This report noted progress in declining HIV infection rates in a number of countries and increasing access to HIV treatment. Adult HIV infection rates have decreased in certain countries and...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (9 Oct 2008)

Peter Power: Recent data released by the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) demonstrate that the global HIV prevalence — the number of people living with HIV — has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen. This is primarily due to much improved surveillance methodologies, along with some positive impacts of HIV programmes. However, in 2007 over 33 million people were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)

Mr. Niall Mulligan: I am the executive director of HIV Ireland. The organisation has been in existence since 1987 and was formerly known as Dublin AIDS Alliance. I thank the joint committee for giving me this opportunity to discuss with it the topics of HIV in Ireland and HIV related stigma. Over 7,000 people have been newly diagnosed with HIV in Ireland since the 1990s. We estimate that...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (14 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: The most recent information and statistics on the HIV AIDS epidemic are contained in the annual report, AIDS Epidemic Update 2005, released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV AIDS, UNAIDS, and the World Health Organisation, WHO. This report noted progress in declining HIV infection rates in a number of countries and increasing access to HIV treatment. Adult HIV infection rates have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Byrne: ...HIQA Board at its May meeting and that the Department of Health will shortly thereafter receive advice formally from HIQA. The HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre advises that the weekly HIV notification reports for 2018 are provisional. I remain concerned about these provisional figures that show a rise in HIV infection. The HIV Annual Report for 2017 from the Centre...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (29 Jun 2006)

Conor Lenihan: HIV/AIDS presents an enormous challenge to developing countries, especially in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is by far the worst-affected region in the world. AIDS is now the leading cause of death in this region. Over 3 million new infections occurred there in 2005, while the disease claimed the lives of over 2 million adults and children in the same year. Women and girls make up almost 57% of...

Written Answers — HIV Infection: HIV Infection (21 Mar 2007)

Conor Lenihan: HIV/AIDS continues to be the single biggest obstacle to reducing poverty and to attaining the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs. Current statistics from the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS, UNAIDS, indicate that, in 2006, almost 40 million people were living with the HIV virus. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the worst-affected region in the world and is now home to over 25 million...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (17 Sep 2014)

Leo Varadkar: HIV is a in Ireland since September 2011 and is transmitted through contact with the blood, semen, vaginal fluid, or breast milk of a person infected with HIV. The most common way to get HIV is by having unprotected sex with a person who has HIV. Unprotected sex means not using a condom. Another common way to get HIV is by sharing drug injection equipment (such as needles and syringes)...

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

Frank Feighan: HIV testing is provided free of charge through a number of public services, including public STI services and through public or community services that work with specific populations, in particular those at higher risk of HIV. HIV testing is included free of charge within routine STI testing and is available for free in all 23 public STI services in Ireland. One of these services is...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (3 Jul 2007)

Michael Kitt: HIV/AIDS continues to be the single biggest obstacle to reducing poverty and to attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Current statistics from the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) indicate that, in 2006, almost 40 million people were living with the HIV virus. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the worst-affected region in the world and is now home to over 25...

Written Answers — HIV-AIDS Strategy: HIV-AIDS Strategy (28 Apr 2005) See 1 other result from this answer

Conor Lenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 142 together. Since its appearance just 20 years ago, HIV-AIDS has spread to all countries across the globe. One in five adults in southern Africa is living with HIV-AIDS, over 50% of whom are women. The disease is also now spreading rapidly in other regions and poses an enormous challenge to reducing poverty and attaining the millennium development...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (14 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: HIV/AIDS is the single biggest obstacle to reducing poverty and to attaining the millennium development goals, MDGs. Recent statistics published by UNAIDS indicate that despite decreases in the rate of HIV infection in certain countries, the overall number of people living with HIV has continued to increase. There were an additional 5 million new infections in 2005, mostly among women,...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (22 May 2008)

Peter Power: Recent data released by the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) show that the global HIV prevalence — the number of people living with HIV — has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen. This is primarily due to much improved surveillance methodologies along with some positive impacts of HIV programmes. However, in 2007 over 33 million people were living...

Written Answers — HIV Infection: HIV Infection (2 Apr 2008)

Mary Harney: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases. Case Based Reporting of HIV which allows for the linkage of HIV cases with AIDS cases was introduced in July 2001. The following table sets out the numbers of new cases diagnosed in each year from 2001 to June 2007. Year New HIV Cases 2001 299 2002 364 2003 399...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (29 Jun 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The European Union, like Ireland, has a particular focus on communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS. The European Union approach is outlined in the 2005 report entitled "A European Programme for Action to Confront HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis through external action". This report provides for accelerated investment and effort both at European Union level and in conjunction with other...