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Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (27 May 2020)

Simon Harris: ...by the IBTS to review the evidence base for donor selection, deferral and exclusion in Ireland relating to social behaviours that may increase the risk of acquiring specific blood borne infections (HIV, HBV, HCV, syphilis and gonorrhoea). Gonorrhoea is a serious sexually transmitted infection associated with populations with increased LGV, syphilis and HIV prevalence. As such, the IBTS...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

...for example, access to hospitals, there is a standard process that we always use in those circumstances. In a normal year we have many people requiring special medical facilities. They might have HIV, for example. We make special provision for them in terms of accommodation. As promised, I have found the figure the Deputy was looking for. At the end of April there were 5,694...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (13 May 2020)

Catherine Byrne: ...Strategy will remain relevant beyond 2020. It is planned to develop a refreshed version of the strategy. A number of priority actions under the Strategy were significantly progressed in 2019. A national HIV PrEP prevention programme was commenced in November 2019, and funding of €5.4 million allocated to the HSE in Budget 2020 for full national roll-out this year. In addition, last...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Ossian Smyth: ...things, is that we are prepared for the next pandemic. We have seen outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome, MERS, human immunodeficiency viruses, HIV, ebola, human papillomavirus, HPV, Zika virus, Lassa virus, yellow fever and smallpox in recent memory. It would not make sense for us to see Covid-19 as a strange outlier. We need to prepare...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...who now are not getting it. They are at home wondering if they have the virus if the symptoms are showing and they are told to not worry, to self-isolate and that will be good enough. With the HIV virus in the past, knowing one's state of health encourages one to understand the ramification of one's actions and that others understand that the ramifications around one's actions also...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (18 Dec 2019) See 2 other results from this answer

Ciarán Cannon: ...Mozambique as 62.3 years, a remarkable increase in 20 years although clearly more needs to be done: Irish support for health service provision with an emphasis on maternal and child health, together addressing HIV / AIDS helped support this positive change. Ireland's policy for international development, A Better World, commits the Government to deepen and expand on its existing...

Domestic Violence: Statements (11 Dec 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...Organization states that women who have experienced domestic violence are at an increased risk of depression and suicide attempts, physical injuries, psychosomatic disorders, unplanned pregnancies, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Some 30% of women who experience domestic violence in Ireland are physically assaulted for the first time during pregnancy. Reported physical abuse...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: HIV-AIDS Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (10 Dec 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...Health Rights (SRHR) and transforming women’s health outcomes. A Better World commits to a new initiative around Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, building on our partnerships in health and HIV and AIDS. In line with the new policy, the Government has taken steps to deepen and expand on our existing partnerships in this area. My Department is scoping the range of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Data (10 Dec 2019)

Simon Harris: ...Health Products Regulatory Authority 9 0 Health Research Board 10 0 Health Service Executive 12 1 Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal 15 8 Irish Blood Transfusion Service 12 0 Medical Council 25 0 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

...in respect of education and sexual health promotion. Additional money was allocated last year, broadly, for sexual health, which was a big focus for the Department and for the HSE, and included HIV prevention. While we are not discussing this matter specifically today, it is interrelated with regard to the education and broader sexual health promotion. Additional funding of €1.5...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Harty: ...enabled the courts there to judge the reasonableness and proportionality of its government's health policies without forcing the rearrangement of government resources. Only when its government failed to address South Africa's HIV crisis, visible to the public and the international community, did the court as the last institution of appeal, mandate that treatment be made available when it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Byrne: ..., families and communities affected by drug and alcohol use. The project provides access to a community links worker, a drop-in service, a special rehabilitative community employment scheme and a sexual health screening clinic run by HIV Ireland. It also hosts group therapy programmes and Merchants Quay Ireland utilises it to provide a needle exchange service. The HSE also supports...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ..., not a single person has been identified as being vulnerable through a formal vulnerability assessment, despite the asylum population including victims of human trafficking, torture, people with HIV and those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder caused by living in war zones. Not one of those people, however, has been classified as being vulnerable according to the Department of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (12 Nov 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...but much smaller joint research project during 2018, carried out by the HSE and the anti-human trafficking unit of my Department. The second project is by Gender, Orientation, Sexual Health and HIV, GOSHH, which is a charity based in Limerick city. The project aims to explore the current level of awareness and know-how about the criminalisation of purchasing sex legislation among survival...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, last week that a public programme in respect of pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, would be rolled out by the HSE. PrEP is a drug that prevents the transmission of HIV. The State has a very poor record of combatting HIV and transmission rates have been rising. There were 500 new cases last year. I first raised this issue here in February 2017 and I have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 70. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the opening of a HIV clinic in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41355/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (8 Oct 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Sexual health is a key priority, both for me and for this Government as a whole, and reducing the number of new HIV diagnoses is a priority focus under the National Sexual Health Strategy. The Health Information and Quality Authority Health Technology Assessment report on PrEP was published in June, which found that the introduction of a PrEP HIV prevention programme would be safe, effective...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: ...pregnancy to screen for a number of infectious diseases. These include: - Immunity to rubella (German Measles) - Immunity to varicella zoster (chickenpox) - Syphilis - Hepatitis B - Hepatitis C - HIV As per recommendation 5, contained within the Scally Review (2018), a National Screening Advisory Committee will be established and become operational before the end of 2019. This is to...

Report on Relationships and Sexuality Education: Motion (26 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...Organization, WHO, which claims that "sexuality education leads to improved sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including a reduction in sexually transmitted infections, (STIs), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and unintended pregnancy". It is important to note that. I thank the members of the committee. We identified that improvements in the curriculum are urgently needed to...