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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...effective, and it was not introduced at that time. All vaccines administered through the School Immunisation Programme are provided free of charge. In July 2018, NIAC recommended the HPV vaccine for people living with HIV up to and including 26 years of age and for all gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM), including gbMSM living with HIV, up to and including 45...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Mar 2022)

Frank Feighan: STI/HIV testing is currently available for symptomatic infections through the national network of STI clinics. Asymptomatic testing is available through an HSE home testing service, through a pilot originally funded in 3 counties by the Sláintecare Integration Fund. In response to demand, this service has been expanded and is currently offered in 20 counties, with roll-out nationally...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (1 Mar 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,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Seamus McCarthy: In the mid 1990s, because of HIV contamination and certain people suffering as a result of blood transfusion contamination, they were not able to get life insurance. There was a difficulty around things like mortgages and so on. A scheme was put in place where the State would, effectively, subvent their insurance. Payments are being made year on year to allow them to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...-19 specific response measures, and ongoing work to strengthen health systems for the prevention and treatment of pre-existing conditions. Experience from Irish Aid’s engagement in the fight against HIV and Ebola demonstrates the importance of effective public health systems. Ireland continues to support health system strengthening through our funding to partners such as WHO,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jan 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...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 Institutions Statutory Fund Board is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Colm Brophy: ...;€200 million over the past two years, with further Irish Aid investment in global public health to come this year.   An insight from Irish Aid’s long-standing contribution to the flights against HIV and Ebola is that effective public health systems are essential to containing infectious diseases.  Our response  includes support to the WHO, to GAVI The...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Contracts (19 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...Name Reason Costs € Nutrition Works Nutrition Tech Support Consultancy 16,044.00 Anne Nolan Specialist Support Global Health, HIV AIDS 72,793.75 Public Good Ltd Consultancy Services to DFA on IFAD and Food Systems 89,298.00 Graham Shaw Specialist Support...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the report published by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in March 2021, which identified a TRIPS waiver as a key public health mechanism and noted its importance in response to the HIV-AIDS crisis; - the strong calls from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS for a TRIPS waiver and global vaccine equity; - the calls from international civil society...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...all those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses and reiterate the message of U=U, or undetectable equals untransmittable. This is the scientific fact that if you are on effective treatment for HIV, you cannot pass it on to your partner. I also encourage people to get tested not just for HIV, but to know their sexual health status. Cases of sexually transmitted infections, STIs, are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Rebecca Moynihan: ...of the emergence of another pandemic, which is the AIDS pandemic. Today is World AIDS Day and it is important that we mark the day in this Chamber, in particular the stigma that still surrounds HIV and AIDS. When HIV and AIDS first emerged in the late 1980s it was a pandemic that was laden with both moral and social judgment. I am somebody who grew up in the early 1990s in an area of...

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (1 Dec 2021)

Jerry Buttimer: ...will start to change and we can, through this motion and through the Government, lead the way. The Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, has travelled the world. He is challenging how we deal with HIV and AIDS in Africa and other parts of the world. I note today is World AIDS Day. I thank him for the work he has been doing quietly with NGOs and organisations throughout the world...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...a seat on the UN Security Council if do not to use our influence, as a small country, to advocate for things like the TRIPS waiver, which would be very similar to what we did, as a country, for the HIV epidemic. As Senator Davitt outlined, this is the week for us to do so. This is the week to put pressure on our EU partners for a TRIPS waiver because, as we have seen with the variants,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sustainable Development Goals (25 Nov 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...of infants (aged under 28 days) per 1,000 live births. SDG 3.3 COVID-19 Communicable Disease The current cases and mortality rates are for Covid-19 are available on the Covid-19 data hub. SDG 3.3.1 Number of New HIV Infections per 1,000 Uninfected Population There were 523 people diagnosed with HIV in Ireland 2018. Just over seven in ten of these people lived in the East region, based on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (24 Nov 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Jerry Buttimer: ..., because Cork is our second city. To be fair to the Minister of State and the Department of Health, the funding is available. PrEP has become a very important tool and asset in the fight against HIV in the world. I want to stress that the Cork Sexual Health Centre is doing Trojan work. The outreach, engagement, support and services are fantastic and are helping so many people. A...

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...the facts of life. So often this leads to a warping of young people's body image, giving them unrealistic expectations of sex. How can we hope to reduce the number of crisis pregnancies, STIs, HIV and body dysmorphia if we do not address these issues in schools? It should not be too much to ask for an inclusive and modern sexual health education programme in every school. Is it any...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Nov 2021)

Helen McEntee: ...the Prison Healthcare Team. Healthcare staff are guided by the infectious disease policy with support from prison and national committees to implement a range of infection control measures for TB, HIV, Hepatitis B and other infections. Hepatitis screening is offered to all new prisoners as part of this assessment which includes Hepatitis C. Prisoners can also avail of Hepatitis...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...on offences. Threatening somebody with a syringe or piercing their skin with a syringe happens in circumstances where the fear the perpetrator wishes to instil is that the victim is going to contract HIV. To me, that is a very serious offence and one which displays a particular amount of forethought. If offences that attract a particular disqualification are to be included in the...

Seanad: Science Week: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ..., shows why we need the Science Gallery. Maybe some of us have never been or have only been to the café or to events which took place there, such as an excellent event on the global response to HIV. That event explored the experience of patients, clinicians and researchers, and challenged the perceptions of what it means to live with HIV. While some of us perhaps have not been to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Service, Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Public Health England and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). The Group met in September 2021. The Group considered trends in notifications of HIV & STI in Ireland from 2015-2019, the findings of a 12-year review (2008-2020) by the IBTS of blood donors with confirmed HIV and syphilis infections, and the UK experience of changes in...