This morning.
Hawkins House, Dublin 2
Members of Aids coalition Act Up picket the Department of Health about a crisis that has seen Ireland record the highest number of new HIV diagnoses ever last year.
Buzz writes:
On the eve of World AIDS Day, ACT UP Dublin is sounding an alarm to government, community stakeholders, and the public: Ireland is in the midst of an HIV crisis.
This morning in front of Department of Health Offices ACT UP installed an alarm clock to wake Ireland’s dormant institutions to the need for a renewed effort to address the expanding epidemic.
Thanks to advances in treatment and prevention, government has powerful new ways to reduce new HIV transmissions. ACT UP calls on authorities to do more than offer words. Government should devote greater resources, and take effective actions, to address the epidemic.
From top: HIV activist Robbie Lawlor; members of Act Up and artist Will Ledger.
Pics; Press Association
Meanwhile…
From top: Trevor Clarke MLA and Eamonn McCann MLA
A Northern Ireland politician has admitted he did not know heterosexual people could contract HIV until a charity explained the facts to him.
The DUP’s Trevor Clarke made the admission in a Stormont debate calling for a new HIV awareness campaign.
He was later accused of “unconscious homophobia” by Foyle MLA Eamonn McCann.
He said it was not so long ago that some politicians had proclaimed they would “Save Ulster From Sodomy” – referring to the campaign led by the DUP’s founder, the late Ian Paisley.
Mr McCann asked the assembly: “What’s wrong with sodomy anyway?”
The People Before Profit MLA also said he would have kissed more men in his life if it “hadn’t been for the stubble factor”.
DUP’s Clarke did not know heterosexuals could contract HIV (BBC)
Update:
Sammy Wilson on HIV: people get dementia/cancer “not always as a result of their own behaviour”. Ergo HIV…
Christ the night…— Squinter (@squinteratn) November 30, 2016
Thanks Colm Dore
Over half of all new cases in 2014 (54%) were from immigrants says the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC). A pattern reflected in other years – http://www.drugs.ie/resourcesfiles/ResearchDocs/Ireland/2015/HSE_HIV_2014.pdf
Rubber up lads!
Meanwhile, new cases of HIV in Portugal have plummeted since…?
Who could have foreseen that losing the Web Summit could have such terrible consequences for the country?
ha!
LOL
LOL.
Seriously, legalise all drugs.
Poor Trevor. Wait till they tell him HIV isn’t limited to Catholics
I think trevor got his facts from here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xUjw2BCYE
He should wear one of those dinky green ribbons.
This isn’t an epidemic. ACTUP – God, you’d think this was San Francisco 1977.
What the f.. ?.. Really?…
& Me thinking that it couldn’t get any more daft than the survey with15% who think spousal rape/sexual abuse is acceptable… not sure if it was only men, though…
Science has got to get to work on a much bigger problem though…
How can you possibly have a head that big and not know that simple common fact…. What is eating up all that space in his skull ???…..
:-J
That survey was ridiculous. Its like the old one the meat industry did with doctors… it went like this “so doctor, is a substantial breakfast healthy compared to no breakfast” Doctor says “yes of course”. Next question ” would bacon be a substantial meal” doctor says “yes I suppose”.. Meat industries than says “doctors say bacon is a substantial healthy meal”. That really happened, REALLY
I don’t get the point of the tweet?
Surely 99% of HIV infection is preventable, unlike stuff like dementia?
No when most of it is coming from Sub Sahara Africa, where they’re not to concerned about prevention.
Let’s head to Ireland for the free healthcare.
Oh Robbie and Will. Fair play!
Also that story from Stormont is part of the reason in the south aren’t exactly clamoring for a United Ireland.
Ah now, we have plenty of barely literate morons wandering the corridors of power in the Republic too. Take Danny “the man above controls the weather” Healy Rae for example.