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THE HPV VACCINE will be extended to men who have sex with men (MSM) next year.
MSM between the ages of 16 and 26 will be able to get the vaccine through public STI services from January onwards. The vaccination has been available to men and women living with HIV under the age of 26 since October.
HPV stands for Human Papillomavirus, which is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, with almost all men and women contracting it at some point in their lives.
In most cases, the virus clears on its own and does not have any symptoms, but in some cases, it can lead to genital warts or cancer. The HSE vaccinates thousands of schoolgirls against the virus each year.
The announcement was made at the opening of the HSE’s Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme conference today.
Dr Fiona Lyons, Clinical Lead for Sexual Health with the HSE said: “The vaccine will help to prevent HPV infection which can cause HPV-associated cancers and genital warts.
“It is important that MSM have access to the HPV vaccine because they do not benefit from the herd immunity conferred through vaccinating adolescent girls.
Speaking about the announcement, Minister for Health Promotion Marcella Corcoran Kennedy said: “The increases in sexually transmitted infections and HIV, particularly among men who have sex with men, is cause for concern and we know that late diagnosis of HIV remains a problem.
“At the launch of the strategy last year, my department provided funding to pilot a peer-led, point of care HIV-testing initiative in pubs and clubs.
This pilot has had considerable success in identifying new cases of HIV. As we all know, earlier diagnosis of HIV allows for timely initiation of treatment which confers significant benefits on the individual living with HIV and reduces transmission within the population. The HSE is currently reviewing how this method of testing might be further rolled out in 2017.
Safe sex
Dr Lyons added that the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has convened a multi-sectoral national MSM HIV/STI outbreak response group “to investigate the reasons for, and to develop an effective response to the increase seen in HIV, syphilis and gonorrhoea in MSM”.
Dr Derval Igoe, chair of the group, said: “Working in partnership with the Gay Health Network and Positive Now means that we are in a good position to reach affected communities, raise awareness and provide clear health promotion and harm reduction messages effectively.
“Safer sex through use of condoms with new or casual partners, and regular testing for STI and HIV are key.”
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Why was my comment deleted does the journal endorse Rohingya insurgents violence against native people?
@Johnny Gunn: Agreed. You should have full reign to show your right wing, reactionary, blinkered, fake news/trump-inspired, myopic view of the world! The last thing we’d want is anyone confusing you with a decent human being with the ability to view something objectively!
@Graham: excuse me I only asked if amnesty cared about Rohingya persecution of Buddhists in the West.
@Johnny Gunn: perhaps it was so perversely factually false and so hate ridden that it offended standards of decency.
@Fiona deFreyne: I don’t see that criteria in the comment policy
@Johnny Gunn: so…not denying the description of you? While your perspective is poisonous and as loosely tethered to reality as trumps hair is to his head it’s somewhat refreshing to see you own ur convictions. As for this particular post I genuinely do think, if it was as you described, it should be left up. The fact that you repeatedly equate ethic cleansing in the east with the attacks in the west of
@Graham: you sound deranged and unhinged go out and get some fresh air
@Graham:
@Johnny Gunn: hmmm…that’s an effective reply. Well done
@Graham: about as effective as your hysterical ranting about Trumps hair!
@Johnny Gunn: half a million people being burned out of their homes and you act like you’re being persecuted because of a deleted comment. How will you get through the day?
@The Bloody Nine: haha comprehension fail where did I say the violence is as a result of a deleted comment??
@Johnny Gunn: read my comment sloooowly…reeeallly sloooowly. Ask mommy if you need help.
@Johnny Gunn: twas actually quite an apt simile but good to know anyone who disagrees with you is hysterical.
@Johnny Gunn: Maybe you were repeating that lie you’ve been on about, that the Rohingya want to setup a Caliphate. You still haven’t provided evidence for that chestnut.
@Johnny Gunn: Yes there was violence from some Rohingya groups, but the response has been savage beyond all reasonable proportion. It would be like if the British Army had swept through the North burning every Catholic out of house and home and chasing them south of the border in retaliation for IRA attacks. Yes, the initial attacks should be mentioned in discussions about this topic but they come nowhere close to justifying these reprisals.
@Patrick Kearns: you won’t get it (as you know). He’ll keep on lying, knowing people will believe it.
@Ewan Euphrenza: I actually gave the British army/ira example you gave, on a related post a few days ago. I was told that because it was a different continent and time period the analogy had no credibility, and wouldn’t answer my question. These people just ignore any reason or logic, so I guess your not going to get a response
@Johnny Gunn: The journal has no obligation to publish your very obnoxious, ignorant and false assertions. Your contrarian views are particularly shocking and offensive with regard to the Rohyngya, who are being murdered and victimised in a deliberate campaign of mass ethnic cleansing and genocide.
@Johnny Gunn:
‘Tens of thousands of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Hindus have also been driven from their homes since late August’
Obviously the guys here didn’t even bother reading the article before engaging in ridiculous ad hominems.
Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine it is clear that Man is a tribal and territorial creature, perhaps those who defend mass immigration believe that something like this will not happen again in Europe, or perhaps the promoters of such a policy know exactly where it will lead to?
War is a racket – Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC
@James Connolly: Israel was created when a mass migration of European Jews fleeing the Holocaust happened, the intra-ethnic tribal conflict in NI is a result of the mass migration of Scots into Ulster 17th century also in the same time frame a mass migration of people from Ethiopia, the Tutsi’s settled in Rwanda setting the scene for one of the worlds bloodiest conflict. Dont let your ideology blind you, mass immigration seldom works out well.
So much for Buddhist inclined peoples having a serene outlook on life and their neighbours!
@gowfc@yahoo.com W:
Makes you wonder what drove Buddhists to say enough is enough.
@Remy: Really that’s your take away? No pity or empathy? Instead “well they must’ve done something really bad to bring this on themselves”?
@Graham:
Calm down there snowflake, you’ll burst a blood vessel. You do understand the history of this conflict, don’t you? Or did you suddenly gather some interest in the last few weeks. I asked a question and you jump in with an assumption, freak.
@Remy: an assumption based on what you said…should I base it on something else? And I’m not the one getting butt-hurt and insulting people who I can’t win an argument with
@gowfc@yahoo.com W:
They have even managed to turn the Buddhists homicidal.
Does this suggest possible issues with a certain religion.
@Graham: What argument? :)
@Graham:
a man minus an argument, is man minus a purpose
@Dave J: What about a man with a stupid argument based on lies…?
Hopefully this attempted genocide campaign can be brought to the earliest possible halt. It has been a horrific campaign of attempted extermination and expulsion.
It is frightening that the leader of Myanmar supposedly knows so little of what is happening in her country.
@Fiona deFreyne:
Why is it happening Fiona? It wouldn’t have anything to do with the coincidental rise in Islamic attacks on state facilities in the region now would it?
@Thought for Food: the state that refuses to acknowledge their existence?
Terrible but all the same not much fuss kicked up about all the other religions cleansed from muslim countries
Maybe the military are really still in control
@Dave O’Hanlon: The military have always been in control Sun Kyi is little more than a figurehead
Given to number of comments here it appears that the Journal censorship is in full swing unless you agree with the Journal’s opinion., rather than actually knowing the real situation on the ground and the history of this conflict.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: the comments to views ratio seems to be roughly equal to the other articles posted around the same time. Put away the tin foil hat
This won’t be the last.
Piss Nobel Prize was always Given to murderers. Yitzhak Rabin asked his Army to break Palestinian bones.
Who cares about the Rohingya they are not chosen Blondes with Blue eyes.
Je suis Charlot.
Communists will communist.
And that usually isn’t very pretty.
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