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This year
2024
Detoxing from G is '100 times worse than alcohol withdrawal', expert warns
Chemsex – using drugs like G to enhance and prolong sex – has become more common in Ireland in recent years.
GHB or GBL is used socially and for the purposes of chemsex
The drug is highly addictive and its potency varies widely
Every year dozens of people seek help to detox from G at the Club Drugs Clinic in Dublin
Órla Ryan
15 Jan
41.6k
Last year
2023
Number of women diagnosed with HIV doubles amid 68% increase in overall cases
8 Nov 2023
21.2k
STI notifications increase by more than 20% when compared to pre-pandemic levels
20 Apr 2023
8.2k
All time
New blood donation changes come into effect lifting blanket rules based on sexual orientation
28 Nov 2022
14.0k
14
Monkeypox: Shame and stigma will prolong outbreak, campaigners say
30 Jul 2022
11.3k
Monkeypox: Use of smallpox vaccine to be extended to groups at high risk of exposure
26 Jul 2022
25.2k
21
Closure of PrEP service will 'undoubtedly' have impact on HIV rates, experts warn
2 Oct 2020
17.8k
'A significant gamechanger': PrEP programme to reduce HIV rates being rolled out from today
4 Nov 2019
10.0k
7
'It's worrying': Over 200 people diagnosed with HIV so far this year
15 Jun 2018
28.0k
43
'When HIV hit Ireland it had the same devastation it did in San Francisco'
1 Dec 2017
12.5k
5
'I'm most angry at myself': HIV positive people continue to suffer from stigma in Ireland
28 Sep 2017
18.8k
33
Calls for prevention medication to be made available following over 500 HIV diagnoses in 2016
15 Jun 2017
11.4k
20
New HIV cases in injecting drug users had a big rise in 2015
15 Jun 2016
8.0k
7
Calls to address 'crisis' as HIV cases nearly double in first 4 months of the year
1 May 2016
24.9k
69
Irish dentists refusing to treat HIV positive patients 'adds to stigma'
2 Dec 2015
18.2k
66
Coffee cups in Dublin are going to urge people to get tested for HIV
23 Nov 2015
18.2k
49
Leo Varadkar has called for an increase in HIV testing in Ireland
4 Sep 2015
10.1k
25