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SEXUAL HEALTH CLINICS and organisations around the country are campaigning to reduce the fear and stigma around HIV as part of ‘European HIV Testing Week‘.
Latest stats from the World Health Organisation show that 1 in 3 of the 2.3 million people living with the condition in Europe are unaware that they are HIV positive.
Additionally, 50 per cent of sufferers are diagnosed late, delaying access to treatment and meaning they are less likely to respond well to treatment and more likely to experience serious health complications.
According to Dr. Erin Nugent of the Dublin AIDS Alliance: “Treatment advances over the last 30 years have meant that HIV is now seen as a chronic but manageable illness when people adhere to HIV medication.
“People who are diagnosed early and have access to treatment can expect the same life expectancy as that of HIV negative individuals. Furthermore, those that are on HIV treatment have a significantly reduced chance of transmitting HIV to other people.
“Often people do not go for HIV testing because they think they have not been at risk or because they are not experiencing any symptoms. Yet half or more of new infections derive from people living with HIV who are not yet diagnosed and therefore they remain unaware that they may be transmitting HIV to others.
The Dublin Aids Alliance is offering an additional testing session this Wednesday as part of the awareness week. Details of other sexual health testing clinics and specialists around the country are available here.
European HIV Testing Week is taking place between 22 and 29 November, and leads up to the annual ‘World AIDS Day’ on 1 December.
The above comments are discriminatory and racist. Almost 40% of new HIV cases in Ireland in 2011 were in Irish born individuals. The assumption that HIV is confined to immigrants is an incorrect and dangerous one, and may prevent others at risk from being tested.
Don’t you mean below.
They would be below if you have comments listed by time and date.
I’ll mention it to Darragh, after he comes back from his coffee break.
I’ve no issue with the article, it’s the comments posted afterwards, probably caused confusion by saying comments above. Apologies
Daragh, just one g.
That still leaves 60% not irish,fail test-get out
I never mentioned any nationality and I said I’d be quite happy to do it myself. Must be your own xenophobia creeping through.
Joe, you only mentioned emigrants. what about Irish sex tourists who return home? how will you identify them from the rest ?
HIV can only spread through sex or blood transfusion, so nobody can get infected by shaking hands or by air/food/water or other means. Even if a few immigrants carry HIV, it’s less likely to spread, because most immigrants face constraints that don’t allow them to socialise freely. An infected Irish person is a greater risk as they’re socially active.
Interesting, to me it sounds like there’s quite a few people walking the streets that are HIV positive, I’ve seen the queues of people waiting at the aids clinic in the Cork Regional with their translators, collecting medications.
Anyone emigrating to a country should be tested. I’d have no problem doing that. I think a government has a right to know if you’re entering a country unhealthy.
There are also Irish people who visit Berlin/Amsterdam to satisfy their “swinging” fantasies. They could be carrying something back home too. Here’s the proof …
Do you worry you might catch it from shaking their hands Joe or if it’s air borne. Why stop at HIV, why not test for every chronic illness under the sun. It’s ignorant attitudes like yours that stops people getting tested in the first place. Also, how will you cost testing every single tourist and immigrant and weekend visitor?
Read my comment again. I said people emigrating to a country. Surely it’ll cost less to do that than pay for their treatment in their newly adopted country.
You call me ignorant? You didn’t even have the brains to read my comment.
We’re importing disease from developing countries, most countries in the world if you want to go and live you have to have a full medical screen, if you have any communicable diseases you’re denied entry, we all know this didn’t happen in Ireland. This country was virtually TB and HIV free in the 90s
Every country can claim that they were AIDS free in the 80s. Wikipedia says “AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States.” It took its time to spread around. Maybe in Ireland, nobody would’ve heard about it even if there were infected people in Ireland during that time.
Promiscuous behaviour is responsible for AIDS. You can’t blame other countries for it, when you’re not taking adequate precautions to protect yourself.
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