STI clinic blog

STI Clinic Dublin-Newstalk HIV
12, August 2015

Dr Aisling Loy of Himerus Health was recently invited onto the Pat Kenny show to discuss HIV with a brave patient living with HIV.  An inspirational story.  Listen here

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STI Clinic Dublin- Genital wart treatment
18, June 2015

Genital warts are often a cause of great distress for people who have suddenly realised they have them.  So in this post I wanted to clear up some of the myths that surround them.  Genital warts are becoming less common thankfully due to the HPV vaccine.  However many people still “suffer” from them.  When I say suffer what I mean …

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STI Clinic Dublin-Irish AIDS Day
15, June 2015

Today marks Irish AIDS day.  Dr Aisling Loy of Himerus Health was invited on to Ireland am to discuss HIV in Ireland today.  The most important points are that:

1) It is best to know you status as then you can get treatment before your health worsens and/or you infect someone else.

2) It is easy to test, there are many testing sites …

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STI Clinic Dublin- A week in the life of
29, May 2015

People often wonder who are the “type of people” that go to an STI clinic.  Often in Ireland people are not great about talking about sex in general and much less so STI’s.  So with ignorance comes stereotypes and misconceptions as to who attends “those sort of places”.  If we were in the UK we probably wouldn’t have to answer …

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