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Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Insurance Authority 7 Health Products Regulatory Authority 9 Health Research Board 10 Health Service Executive 12 Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal 9 Irish Blood Transfusion Service 12 Leopardstown Park Hospital Board 7 ...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Government's commitment to a HIV and AIDS national monument. The Department of the Taoiseach and the Office of Public Works have announced a competition for the monument. I commend the Government on backing the campaign that has been under way for almost a decade. Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, more than 70 million people around the world have acquired the...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (14 Jun 2022)

Mark Daly: ...of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works to provide an update on the proposed HIV and AIDS national monument. I have also received notice from Senator Robbie Gallagher: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the provision and possible extension of services...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (14 Jun 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: I welcome our friends from the United States. They are very welcome. Tomorrow marks Irish AIDS Day created to raise awareness of HIV and the resulting AIDS epidemic. Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 70 million people have acquired the infection and about 35 million people have died. Today around 37 million worldwide live with HIV, of whom 22 million people are on treatment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund: Discussion (14 Jun 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

...happening in Ukraine. From first-hand experience, I will share with the committee the information we have currently. I live in Ukraine. I am the head of a national network of women living with HIV, Positive Women. It is a national women’s rights civil society organisation. We are a community-based organisation representing the community of women living with HIV in Ukraine and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Elimination of Hepatitis C: Discussion (1 Jun 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...what was at the time a lifelong illness. After the initial anger and shock, I put it to the back of my mind. I did not take much heed of it for a while. The way I was told was that I had not got HIV; I had only got hepatitis C. The information I was given was that it was a slowly progressing illness and it would not affect me for ten or 20 years. In the circumstances I was in at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...The 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,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...but representatives from Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam were clear that, given much of the investment has been through public funding, it is the global public who should be the beneficiaries. The HIV-AIDS epidemic showed us the way. There was no significant progress until medicines were made freely available. Millions of lives were saved by ending the lack of access. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (18 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...to sexuality in young people and of building on that foundation for positive sexual health and wellbeing into adulthood and older age. 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 (18 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...of STI clinics; more details of service provision, including details of how to access STI testing, are available through www.sexualwellbeing.ie. For asymptomatic individuals, online HSE home STI/HIV testing is currently available in 22 counties. Online STI testing (involving self-sampling), was originally provided via a pilot funded in Dublin, Cork and Kerry by the Sláintecare...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...has not been possible. Can I get to 95% happy? The questions around religious influence were answered in large part for me by speaking to one of the doctors this week about the provision of HIV services in the HIV clinic in St. Vincent's that is operating daily, giving out free condoms and providing PrEP medication for gay men, in particular, 40 or 50 times a day, with absolutely no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022) See 7 other results from this debate

...-resistant variants that have the potential to drag Ireland, this part of the world and the whole world into lockdowns and restrictions again. Allowing generic production worked before during the HIV-AIDS epidemic, although millions of lives were lost before such production was allowed. I urge the committee not to allow a similar outcome to arise by continuing to delay a TRIPS waiver,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (28 Apr 2022)

Colm Brophy: ..., including sexual and reproductive health care within Ukraine and in neighbouring countries. Amongst other things WHO is providing emergency obstetric and new-born care; health care for survivors of sexual violence; STI and HIV management; family planning services and other lifesaving interventions. In addition to this financial aid, Ireland has consistently condemned all reports of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Apr 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...absorption, administration and hesitancy challenges that prevent matching available supply with need.  Ireland's approach to the global pandemic response focuses on the furthest behind, builds on lessons from the HIV and Ebola crises, and emphasises multilateral approaches. The pandemic response must include vaccine sharing but also enhanced investment in health system strengthening...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (26 Apr 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...blood systems, work which will take place this year and will see individualised donor risk assessment implemented in full. During the implementation period, blood donors, patient organisations and HIV Ireland will be included in the process. We believe this is a safe approach which will ensure the system is fully validated when we introduce it. There will also be a substantial element...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition (21 Apr 2022)

..., the gamete in AHR treatment must also be successfully screened in line with the 2006 regulations. Schedule 3 to regulation 11 of same sets out that a person providing a gamete must be negative for HIV 1 and 2. This applies to any donation other than partner donation. In this regard, I note HIV Ireland sets out that gay men are the group most affected by HIV in Ireland and accounted...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Apr 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...to sexuality in young people and of building on that foundation for positive sexual health and wellbeing into adulthood and older age.  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 (22 Mar 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 989. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times nationally for those seeking a prescription for pre- exposure prophylaxis through the HSE for HIV prevention; the waiting time between making an appointment and seeing a doctor; if he is satisfied with the numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14633/22]