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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Consultations (20 Apr 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...Asshfac Technical Support to the development of a Covid-19 resource tracker, Embassy Maputo, Mozambique €3,910 2022 James Sheehan Programme Support Development, Embassy Maputo, Mozambique €3,911 2022 Mvuvi Holdings Aquaculture Scoping Study, Embassy Maputo, Mozambique €11,865 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Progress and Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

...negatively impacted as disruptions to health services caused by the pandemic affected maternal and children's health, immunisation rates, mental health programmes, and treatment of diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, TB and malaria. There are 22.7 million children who missed basic vaccines in 2020, which is almost four million more than in 2019. Tragically, progress on gender equality is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Mar 2023) See 2 other results from this answer

Ivana Bacik: .... To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prescribe dedicated training for HSE-funded personnel administering sexually transmitted infection tests, and providing support to persons living with HIV to ensure that patients do not experience stigma in individual clinics. [13097/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...inherent in the right to health, and, is needed if we are to achieve full gender equality. Improving the quality and availability of maternal health, engagement on the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS, and our work internationally on the prevention and treatment of sexual and gender-based violence have been long-standing elements of Ireland’s development cooperation....

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...is where I would start looking. While it has not been a panacea and is not perfect, it has led to a reduction in deaths, a massive reduction in people being imprisoned for drug addictions and has reduced HIV, hepatitis and other infections. We need to look at what works across the world and take the best parts. What we cannot do is sit in this Chamber and subcontract this out to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...is currently being finalised and will be published on the Healthy Ireland website once complete. In recent years we have seen the launch of a number of major initiatives in the fight against HIV and other STIs in Ireland. Key achievements in relation to HIV prevention to date include: - Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway) joining the HIV Fast-Track Citiesprogramme in 2019. -...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Feb 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: Ireland established a national HIV PrEP programme in November 2019, following a HIQA Health Technology Assessment (HTA), which concluded that the introduction of HIV PrEP would be safe, effective and cost saving. The HTA also found that significant investment in public STI services was required to implement PrEP and €5.4 million was set aside in Budget 2020 to roll out a national HIV...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Jerry Buttimer: ...for World AIDS Day on 1 December.In the 40 years since 1982, we have made gargantuan progress yet we have a road to travel still. As a nation and as a world, we are still fighting the stigma of HIV and we are standing up for people living with this illness. I ask the Minister of Health who has responsibility for the national health strategy to come to the House to have a debate on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...Strategy has been extended to the end of 2022, in order to account for the various impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on previous timelines. Current priority deliverables under the Strategy are HIV prevention, including the continued expansion of a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) programme, which commenced in late 2019, and the HIV Fast Track Cities programme, involving Dublin, Cork,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...Strategy has been extended to the end of 2022, in order to account for the various impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on previous timelines. Current priority deliverables under the Strategy are HIV prevention, including the continued expansion of a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) programme, which commenced in late 2019, and the HIV Fast Track Cities programme, involving Dublin, Cork,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Ivana Bacik: 951. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of HIV treatment and support services in Ireland; his views on the adequacy of the geographical spread of such services; if he is satisfied that age-specific and age-appropriate services are available where need exists; and if he has plans to review or expand services. [54342/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

...the LGBTQ+ press; video content to include monkeypox testing care; and a number of public and community leader meetings with members of the national crisis management team. The HSE has also funded HIV Ireland to provide a counselling and psychological support service for those affected. This concludes my opening statement. Go raibh míle maith agaibh.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Sep 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...of negative sexual health outcomes. These include young people; migrants; gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men; sex workers; people living with addiction issues and people living with HIV. Since 2017, the number of organisations ordering from the NCDS has doubled. The service was extended to 3rd level institutions in late 2019. Third-level institutions can order condom...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (20 Sep 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: ...monkeypox is a sexually transmitted infection, STI, which it is not. It is much more than that. For many of us, it seems that we are going back to the 1980s, when we had another epidemic called HIV, and the way we were treated then. I do not want that to happen now and to have a situation where we have people pigeonholed or victimised. We need a whole-of-government approach in which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

...of Ireland. The Risk Equalisation Fund, which is managed by the Health Insurance Authority, had quite a sizeable account for 2021, amounting to €803 million. That received a clear audit opinion. The Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal special account and the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal reparation fund account both received a clear audit opinion for 2021. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., civil status, race, religious beliefs or as a member of the Travelling Community. 14 17.8 The LGBT+ community, particularly the MSM population of Ireland are made aware of the risks of contracting HIV and other STIs and the importance of regular testing. Conclude the study of the readiness of public STI clinics to implement pre-exposure...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Health Promotion (12 Jul 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...health. A Better World, Ireland’s policy for international development, commits to a new initiative on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), building on our partnerships in health and HIV and AIDS. Access to health services, including access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, is essential for transforming women’s health outcomes. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...ideology. We know from the experience in Portugal, where drugs were decriminalised in 2001 and a health-led system replaced a punitive one, that the country reversed its trends in overdose and HIV transmission prevalence. Presenting for treatment for an addiction problem was no longer stigmatising. It was normal. While Ireland currently has no plans to regulate illicit drugs, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

John Lahart: Dr. Lambert's expertise in infectious diseases goes back to HIV in the 1980s. Is that correct?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vaccination Programme (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...to the COVID-19 pandemic, grounded in our long-term commitment to SDG 3; better health and well-being for all. Our response to the pandemic has been informed by our previous responses to other infectious disease outbreaks, including HIV and AIDS, and Ebola. We know from our work on these issues the critical value of health system strengthening, the need to engage with and involve...