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STI Clinics in Ireland (list in first post updated 10/08/2010)

  • 28-05-2003 1:07pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok, this thread may be a bit out of order on this board. So if I'm out of line, Mods, apologies and please shut it down. I don't know if a poll is appropriate, but I don't expect many people will answer posting, so I'll leave it up to the mods I guess.

    I got a mail in work yesterday with recent statistics on STI infections, including HIV, which estimates that prevalence is on the up in this country again. It is especially high in 14-25 year olds with males 33% higher than females.

    In 2002 we reached a record high of 3200+ confirmed cases of HIV. The other countries where HIV prevalence has risen are Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland.

    One of the things that struck me is, this implies that people are still having unprotected sex. Another thread on boards.ie I saw also suggested this and I'm wondering if the safe sex awareness campaign has failed in this country and needs to be re-initiated.

    In someways I thoght safe-sex was something that was a given nowadays, but when talking about it with people I know (including people in the healthcare profession), many have engaged in unprotected sex at least once.

    So the question I am posing really, is has the STI awareness campaign in this country failed? Does it need a stronger re-initiation. And do you see safe sex as a big deal?

    STI CLINICS

    Leinster

    Dublin Well Woman Centre
    Lower Liffey Street Tel: 01 872 8051
    Ballsbridge Tel: 01 660 9860
    Coolock Tel: 01 848 4511
    www.wellwomancentre.ie

    Irish Family Planning Association Medical Centres
    5/7 Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1.
    Tel: 01 872 7088 / 874 2110
    Level 3, The Square
    Tallaght, Dublin 24
    Tel: 01 459 7685/6
    www.ifpa.ie

    Femplus Clinic
    Blanchardstown
    Tel: 01 821 026
    www.femplus.ie

    STI Clinic, St James Hospital
    01 416 2315/6

    STI Clinic, Mater Hospital
    01 8032063/8034780

    Midlands Crisis Pregnancy Counselling Service
    1800 20 08 57

    Life Pregnancy Care Service
    1890 28 12 81

    CURA
    1850 62 26 26

    One Family
    1890 66 22 12 or 01 662 9212

    Pact
    1850 67 33 33

    Dundalk Institute of Technology
    Health Services – STI screening(limited screening, will refer onto STI clinic)
    Dublin Rd
    Dundalk
    Co. Louth
    Tel: 042 9570452

    Institute of Art Design and Technology Health Services – STI screening
    Kill Avenue
    Dun Laoghaire
    Co. Dublin
    01 2144760

    Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown
    Health Services – STI screening
    Blanchardstown Road North
    Dublin 15
    Tel: 01 8851105

    Dublin Institute of Technology
    Health Services – Chlamydia testing only
    Aungier Street
    Dublin 2
    01 4023614

    Dublin Institute of Technology
    Health Services – Chlamydia testing only
    Bolton Street
    Dublin 1
    01 4023051

    Trinity College Dublin
    Health Services – STI screening
    College Green
    Dublin 2
    01 8961556

    University College Dublin
    Health Services – Chlamydia testing only
    Belfield
    Dublin 4
    01 7163133

    HIV & Hepatitis testing only
    Baggot St Hospital 1800 201 187 or 01 6699500
    Beaumont Hospital 809 3006

    Connaught

    Ballinasloe STI Clinic
    090 9648 372 (extension 676)

    Castlebar STI Clinic
    094 9021733 ext 3501

    Galway Family Planning Clinic
    091 562 992

    Galway STI Clinic
    091 525200

    Sligo G.U.M Clinic
    071 9170473

    Mayo Crisis Pregnancy Support Service
    1890 20 00 22

    Ballinasloe Crisis Pregnancy Support Service
    1850 20 06 00

    National University of Ireland, Galway
    Health Services – STI screening (€20 charge for screening)
    University Road
    Galway
    091 492604

    Munster

    Cork Family planning Clinic
    021 427 7906

    Carlow STI Clinic
    051 842646

    Clonmel STI Clinic
    051 842646

    Cork STI Clinic
    021 4966844

    Ennis STI Clinic
    061 482382

    Limerick Family Planning Clinic
    061 312 026

    Limerick STI Clinic
    061 482382 & (061 316661 Sexual Health Helpline)

    Nenagh STI Clinic
    061 482382

    Tralee Family Planning Clinic
    066 712 5322

    Tralee STI Clinic
    021 4966844

    Waterford STI Clinic
    051 842646

    Youth Health Service
    021 422 0490/1

    Sexual Health Centre, Cork
    021 427 6676/021 427 5837

    Kerry Crisis Pregnancy Counselling Service
    Family Planning & Women’s Health Clinic, Tralee
    066 712 5322

    Kerry Counselling Centre, Tralee
    066 712 2931

    Southwest Counselling Centre
    064 36416/064 36474

    West Cork Crisis Pregnancy Counselling Service
    1890 25 23 59

    University College, Cork
    Health Services – Chlamydia testing only
    Cork City
    Co. Cork
    021 4902311

    Institute of Technology, Tralee
    Health Services – STI screening
    Clash
    Tralee
    Co. Kerry
    Ireland
    066 7191679

    Limerick Institute of Technology
    Health Services – STI screening
    Moylish Park
    Limerick
    061 490106

    Athlone Institute of Technology
    Health Services – Chlamydia testing only
    Dublin Road
    Athlone
    Co. Westmeath
    090 6424693

    Waterford Institute of Technology
    Health Services – STI screening (limited screening, will refer onto STI clinic)
    Cork Road
    Waterford
    Co. Waterford
    051 302873

    Ulster

    Altnagelvin STI Clinic
    048 71611269

    Belfast STI Clinic
    048 90 63 4050

    Coleraine STI Clinic
    048 703 46027/8

    HIV Support Centre Northern Ireland
    048 9024 9268

    Newry STI Clinic
    048 30835000 Ext: 2243 or 5050

    Letterkenny Institute of Technology Health Services – Chlamydia testing only
    Port Road
    Letterkenny
    County Donegal
    074 9186855

    A map is available here: http://www.thinkcontraception.ie/info_contacts.asp

    information on STD's:
    http://www.gumnewcastle.nhs.uk/page.asp?id=2
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭thedrowner


    i don't think STI awareness in this country is very good. i was shocked by a 21 year old friends last week who though that pulling out was a faultless form of contraception (i know its not the same as an STI but it just goes to show the lack of awareness)

    i blame drink a lot of the time though. it's scary how things don't matter when you've had that much alcohol. and you could still be aware when you're drun, you just don't care because it seems like such a good idea at the time, you think you're invincible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    To be brutally blunt if you don't use protection in this day and age you are a moron.

    No matter how nice that person seems there's no way that you can know where they've been or who they've been with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Originally posted by sykeirl
    So the question I am posing really, is has the STI awareness campaign in this country failed?

    That depends on what you mean by failed?

    People are aware of stds, the same way they are aware of cigarettes causing cancer, but, getting drunk or simply having brovado (hence the high incidence of STDs in young males (thinking themselves unlikely to get infected)), is the main cluprit.

    Again, Jesus saves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    I know of 5 guys who caught crabs off one girl recently.And she isfrom a different town,which shows how it can spread so easily to an area.Not the serious disease in the world but still.Does a condom provide any protection against crabs?Or do you catch it off the hair?If she is shaven can you catch it?What are the diseases that condoms provide no protection against?

    But in all honesty are STDs a big public health timebomb or is it hype?I read that one in six young Irish women have chlamydia.As only 50% of people expereicne any symptoms which would require a doctors visit that means that 1 in 12 are at risk of carrying this disease for years and spreading it.But is it really this bad?And if it is not powerful enough to cause symptoms does that mean it is relatively inactive and so poses little risk to anybody?

    Also what is the risk with prostitutes?Just wondering as I might be going to Amsterdam with friends soon and you only live once:D
    Honestly its Amsterdam,where you do what you like.Get prosttutes from store windows,smoke hash in cafes,do the safest and best quality ecstasy around and buy a shedload of porno.Nobody judges you for what you get up to over there:)

    But the way that I look at it is that STDs have been around since god knows when.They were enough of an issue in the 1940s for the US government to warn troops in Norn Iron to stay away from local women who were regarded as being a bit infested with them.So if society didnt collapse back when there were few cures for these illnesses arewe really in such awful trouble today?

    And if there are so many fertillity threatening STDs how come 30 year old skanger slappers are still giving birth to their 8th children?Thats what Ive always wondered when they tell you alcohol and cigarrette abuse damages your fertillity when you see Anto who has been an alcoholic since he was 12 have his 12th kid.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    If you have unprotected sex then you deserve all you get!

    If you swallow - beware. Do you know this person? They could be riddled! Sure, you won't get pregnant (ladies), but you could catch something nasty.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭NeMiSiS


    But in all honesty are STDs a big public health timebomb or is it hype?I read that one in six young Irish women have chlamydia.As only 50% of people expereicne any symptoms which would require a doctors visit that means that 1 in 12 are at risk of carrying this disease for years and spreading it.But is it really this bad?And if it is not powerful enough to cause symptoms does that mean it is relatively inactive and so poses little risk to anybody?


    Chylamdia can lead to infertility in women,I saw a documentry not so long ago about a girl who had contracted it unawares,after a few months of trying for kids they went to the doctor,where he diagniosed it. An operation later led to her being told she could never have kids . She was absoloutly heart broken. As im guessing would anyones mother/sister/girlfriend be.

    So no it poses a huge risk,just cause it doesnt manifest in symptoms,doesnt make it dangerous..

    nem


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    Originally posted by Kharn
    If you have unprotected sex then you deserve all you get!

    If you swallow - beware. Do you know this person? They could be riddled! Sure, you won't get pregnant (ladies), but you could catch something nasty.

    did you catch something dav?
    :)


    but i agree, anyone who doesnt use contraception, and i dont just mean the pill, i mean some sort of shielding contraceptive, then you are idiot.

    people do know, they just believe that they are invincible, that nothing can happen to them. its just a teenage state of mind. hell, when i was a teen, i thought i culd do anything and nothing could touch me. ive had pregancy scares once to often in college, and thats what copped me on. whos to say im any differnt from kids nowdays?

    but i still think you gotta use a condom!


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski
    To be brutally blunt if you don't use protection in this day and age you are a moron.

    I totally agree, No pitty what so ever if they have no common sense at all.

    Actually to be honest, you can still be drunk have have sense enough to wear a condom.
    drink is not an excuse!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Cabaal
    Actually to be honest, you can still be drunk have have sense enough to wear a condom.
    drink is not an excuse!

    Most people I know it is ignorance rather than being drunk .. i know lots of guys and girls who will happly have sex, sober, without using protection.

    I was amazed when i first when to college at the complete lack of knowledge about STDs everyone seemed to have. I went to a school that had quite a good Sex Ed program, but still i didn't know a whole lot and started reading up on stuff when i started having sex. But most of my friends either choose to pretend STD didn't exist or barely knew they existed in the first place. Most people i knew worried about only 2 things, pregency and AIDS. They took the pill for the first and rationalised that the odds of getting HIV were so small, and went out and had lots of unprotected sex.

    There is a general feeling, I think, that we (young society) don't want things such as reality to get in the way of us having fun. The people on the telly have random unsafe sex all the time it looks like fun. We are bombared with images of sex sex sex everywhere. We want to be able to have sex when ever and with who ever we want. Pick up a lads or lasses magazine and it is fully of "I had sex with a strange on a plane" or "I shagged the waiter in the bathroom at my 21 birthday." That sounds like fun, we want to do it as well.

    We use any old excuse to rationalise unsafe sex (plenty of STD you can get with a condom, herpes, warts, HIV etc etc) and get on with the fun. And when was the last time you say a character on TV getting an STD.
    Tha Gopher
    Also what is the risk with prostitutes?Just wondering as I might be going to Amsterdam with friends soon and you only live once

    Kinda shows my point in glaring light ...

    You want to shag a prostitute cause you think it sounds fun (when did sleeping with a prositute become something someone did before they died??) and you don't want a little thing like the huge probability she has a serious STD stop you. So you are rationalising down the risk. Ah it can't be that bad etc ...
    Tha Gopher
    What are the diseases that condoms provide no protection against?

    Most people have no clue how to use a condom properly, and they fail and rip all the time, but to answer your question -

    Any genital skin infection, such as Herpes and Warts can be carried on areas that the condom doesn't cover. Also it is doubtfull that condoms protect against warts even if covered.

    HIV can be stopped by a condom, but it is not a guarantee. A condom will lower the risks not remove them. Same with the other serious STD viruses.

    There is no complete protection against STDs for intercourse. Safe sex is more about being smart about the choices you make, rather than what medical device you use.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    So much is said these days about STIs but awareness of their existence is not enough!

    There should be a better system in place for ppl who suspect they have become infected!

    Many students and 2ndary school students have difficulty paying for one or more visits to a doctor to get treated and for the medicine needed to treat these infections.

    Plus, ppl are so afraid to take sex seriously in this country - we love to make jokes and giggle but many ppl are too complexed to admit to a doctor or even to themselves that yes, they have had multiple partners and that yes, they have taken risks.

    In fact, does anyone know how to go about getting one's self tested for STIs in Ireland? (I'm thinking I should do so myself)

    I know in other countries, ppl who are sexually active and who have had different partners go for routine check-ups say once a year. This seems like a really good idea to me as it encourages ppl to be responsible for their sexual health. Do ppl in Ireland ever do this or do they mostly just wait for symptoms to become impossible to ignore before taking action?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Chlamydia is one of the most widely spread STDs in the world. If left untreated it can cause PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) which can cause scarring of the fallopean tulbes and can make women infertile. It does have symptoms - I'm not going to gross people out by going into 'discharge' details so if you want to know about it, go here for instance. Chlamydia is diagnosable through urine samples or other testing, and is easily curable with antibiotics.

    Chlamydia is occasionally mistaken by some people for Thrush, a yeast infection that nine out of ten women suffer from in their lives. It isn't the same thing.

    However, men can catch Thrush from unprotected sex. This simple fungal infection, while not remotely life threatening, is highly uncomfortable. Couples in long term relationships who have poor sexual health due to lack of awareness, or the highly common refusal to see a doctor out of embarassment, for instance, can constantly reinfect each other through unprotected sex.

    Inotherwords you shouldn't just wear a condom because you're afraid of HIV.

    And yes, I agree 1000000% that awareness of all issues sex-related in Ireland is poor, poor, poor. I blame this directly on the fact that a lot of the posters on these boards will have parents from a generation who just DID NOT talk about sex, (born in the 40s - 50s) or a generation later than that where they talked about it a bit while the Catholic Church railed against it (the 60's 70's). How are Irish young people supposed to educate themselves when their parents, out of their own lack of awareness, don't actively promote it?

    Personally, I think the internet is one of the most valuable resources in sex education. If you can surf for porn, you can surf for information on contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases and any other question that you're too embarassed to ask someone directly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭Mercury_Tilt


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭jammy_dodger


    No matter how nice that person seems there's no way that you can know where they've been or who they've been with.

    Unless of course you know where they've been and who they've been with.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    And I thought life was all sold out of rose coloured glasses...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭jammy_dodger


    And I thought life was all sold out of rose coloured glasses...

    Im not naive, I just dont sleep around, and tend to get to know a person before id sleep with them, form a relationship.

    For the record, I always cover me lad, and have never had unprotected sex.
    I just wanted to state that, under certain circumstances that you could have unprotected sex, ie your wife
    But im now going off topic so ill STOP
    As for has STI awareness failed in this country?
    IMO i think everyone is aware, but they just don't care(hey that rhymes) People just shrug it off, and 'say' oh that wont happen to me. Im a firm believer in murphy law, if it can happen. It will happen. i agree that our drinking culture has a lot to do with it too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Originally posted by simu
    Many students and 2ndary school students have difficulty paying for one or more visits to a doctor to get treated and for the medicine needed to treat these infections.

    Most public hospitals have free STD clinics where you can get checked and recieve treatment free of charge .. if you are paying for an STD check (and there are a lot of doctors that charge an arm and leg) you are going to the wrong place.

    I total agree that there should be a better system for those who think they have something (and who find out they have something). There is so much put on NOT GETTING ANYTHING, that if you do catch something (like myself, thank god nothing serious healthwise - btw I have never had unprotected sex) you feel like you have fallen out of the system and basically your sex life is over.

    The nurses in the clinic were very bad at any form of support and basically got me out as quickly as possible so they could see the next person. The handed me a piece of photocopied paper to read which basically said the best think I could do is to not catch it in the first place. Lot of help that was.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭bug


    One thing that always gets me is that cartoon poster in me GP's office which shows two people one of which has a speech bubble saiying I've only slept with one person, and then the poster branches out from his partner, who's previous partner has slept with one women and two men,who have slept with... anyways, it branches out much like a family tree.
    I think this poster should be up in every school.
    Me personally-we got our sex education in fifth year in secondary school, and I dont recall any mention of STI's.
    I go for a full screening every year, even though I have the same partner for the last six years and no-one else. It not that I don't trust him, I do, but as far as STI's are concerned I'm putting my own health first. The infidelity issue doesn't bother me as far as a partner sleeping with someone else, but I will never forget that married man a friend of mine met in Stephen's green. He had two kids and a high profile sales job, he had just been diagnosed with HIV, due to his wife's infidelity..its not a case of someone doing the dirt its a case of someone handing you a death sentance because of their actions, so I tell my boyfriend I get a frequent screening, and If he gets peeved at me ,tough, I'm looking out for myself.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭patch


    Well said Bug. By the way , keep going on this topic. Every post I read like the previous one, pushes me closer to going for that test..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Just saw the news that we have a 34% rise in HIV infections in 2002 (thats 364 of the total 3700-ish we have ever diagnosed, the 34% relates to those that are actually alive and in the state).

    The statistics are somewhat biased as of those 364 cases approx 250 were pre-existing cases in immigrants coming into the country. Over half the new cases were women and 80% were under 40.

    However, the disease is still most prevelant in Ireland among white heterosexual Irish men aged under 25.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Originally posted by sykeirl
    Just saw the news that we have a 34% rise in HIV infections in 2002

    indeed, I cannot remember the last time I saw an ad campaigne on this, do they forget that there are new generations of people who need to be informed. There is no doubt about it, if no one’s talking about it, it's forgotten


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Well until we get proper health based
    sex education in schools this will always be an issue.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Jak


    Those statistics can be very misleading, as skyirl just pointed out.

    STI's are an area for concern always and deserve ongoing information campaigns, but from what I have seen of this report, it is all presented in a rather more serious light than I believe is the actual case.

    Immigrants inflating national statistics is a sure way to misrepresent the reality for native Irish and their sexual practices to date.

    I always trust clear absolute numbers far more than percentage changes.

    JAK.


  • Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Dakeyras


    Originally posted by Thaed
    Well until we get proper health based
    sex education in schools this will always be an issue.

    i always think there's been an issue with this, particularly in Ireland, with the uncomfortablness of both parents and schools in general with the subject of sex and the view of the catholic church on contraception as well. Thankfully the uncomfortablness is changing with the younger generations but it still has an impact on getting the proper sex education in schools.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭DMT


    Originally posted by Dakeyras
    the view of the catholic church on contraception as well.
    It always amazes me to think that are people who refuse to use contraception because they are Catholic, but have no problem in committing a "bigger sin" by having sex outside marriage. Where does this idiocy originate from?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Originally posted by DMT
    It always amazes me to think that are people who refuse to use contraception because they are Catholic, but have no problem in committing a "bigger sin" by having sex outside marriage. Where does this idiocy originate from?
    #

    Obviously it's better to die in sin than live in sin in the Church's eyes :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Bear in mind that it's not just sex that spreads HIV...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Well health based sex education will
    include STI and condoms.

    It still boggles me the ammount of young people who in college didnt know how to open or use a condom correctly and these werent virgins.

    And not every one would attend a safe sex workshop to learn and that is those who get into college. The fight against the lack of information on thise type of stuff should not be left to S.U. officers.

    and broad minded sisters that embarass the hell out of thier siblings on thier 16 birthday with a safe sex kit .
    ok it was fun :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Dakeyras


    Originally posted by Thaed

    and broad minded sisters that embarass the hell out of thier siblings on thier 16 birthday with a safe sex kit .
    ok it was fun :D

    lol
    brilliant. the poor girl probably didn't know where to turn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    well the 3 sisters that got gifted with the kit took it well it was in fact my lil brother that was shocked. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭DMT


    Originally posted by Lemming
    Obviously it's better to die in sin than live in sin in the Church's eyes :rolleyes:
    Either way, sex outside marriage (contraceptives or not) is a venial sin - worst that can happen is you go to purgatory for a while. :D


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