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A new student sexual health service was launched at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Athlone this week, coinciding with SHAG week - a national event intended to raise sexual health awareness.

Alarming figures from the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) indicate that in the early part of 2020 (up to end of March), the numbers of newly diagnosed cases of HIV in Ireland had increased by a staggering 42% (over figures for same period in 2019).

As a nation, we have experienced unprecedented events and witnessed great tragedy as a result of a virus for which we currently have no cure.

Galwayman Gordon Joyce, Chief of Structural Biology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington DC, is at the forefront of the work being done across the world to find a vaccine for the Coronavirus.

Alarming figures from the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) which indicate that there has been an eight per cent increase in the number of people in Ireland being newly diagnosed with HIV so far in 2019, are of great concern to AIDS West.

With the change in season it is a good time to be thinking about boosting your immunity. Vulnerable people such as children and the elderly, people with low immunity and other susceptible people including asthmatics or people with chronic sinusitis and chronic obstructive airway diseases (COAD) need to pay particular attention to their immunity.

Candida is a yeast normally found in certain parts of our body such as mouth, intestines, and vagina. Recently scientists have discovered it living normally, without causing problems, in our eyes. If our immune system is working normally candida does not cause us any problems; on the contrary it helps with our digestion and nutrition and vitamin absorption. It is only if it starts to overgrow and turn into a fungal infection that it can start causing symptoms.

Increasing numbers of people at risk from HIV, which is once again on the rise, is a major concern for Aids West.

To mark 30 years of supporting people living with HIV in Galway and the West of Ireland, AIDS West are to host an international conference focusing on ‘HIV & Ageing’ on World AIDS Day, Friday December 1 at The Ardilaun Hotel, Galway.

EAMON FALLER is a Galway doctor working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Homa Bay, Kenya. Eamon has been based in the country for the past six weeks and will stay on until December.