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Guide Clinic emergency- St James- STI/HIV Epidemic

  • 21-08-2019 4:01pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Just thought it was important to let people know that the GUIDE CLINIC at St James Hospital are no longer accepting walk in Blood testing for STI regardless of whether you have symptoms or not. This is the only clinic in Dublin that offered such a service.

    I was speaking with HIV Ireland and they offer a free service every month. However during this Free Health Check have very long queues and have to turn away over 30 people at every Health Check.

    This is at a very sensitive time in Ireland with a higher proportion of foreign nationals from around the world.

    A disease epidemic in Dublin is the last thing we need. We need an open and transparent system that identifies and treats STI.

    Disease control the most effective way to safeguard our people from an outbreak. We need to expand this service and not restrict it. I am just a concerned citizen that stumbled across this fiasco. I encourage people to email and speak out about this silent social epidemic.

    Feel free to send out an email or Twitter to the Minister for Health or HSE.


    Email:
    info@health.gov.ie

    Twitter:
    Twitter @roinnslainte


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭pirelli


    Just an update to my post back in august 2019,

    I followed up on this issue and found that there was still no walk in being conducted but even worse there was also no bookings on the system. I followed this up with the Minister For Health back in 2019 before covid, the then Minister Simon Harris, and while i did get a response from the Minister no action taken. I followed up with letters and submissions to the Irish Media and no one was interested.

    Subsequently 6 months later we had a pandemic in the form of Covid. Covid is a virus, There are three types of Virus: The common cold (sars v/covid/mers etc) , The chicken Pox and HIV. The easiest of these 3 virus to control is HIV, It is not near as transmissable as the common cold. It is also the one people would the least want to get infected with. It is not something we should have at a level in Ireland where europe has classed ireland as epidemic with HIV in 2019

    However despite the fact that people arriving in ireland could be tested and quarantined and treated and with the need for testing to remove it completely from Ireland. Ireland in its wisdom chose to stop testing altogether to tackle covid instead.

    Since my post then in August 2019, there has been almost no testing for HIV in Ireland, thanks to clinics like HIV Ireland there would be no way to control this virus. The goverment does not care and the irish media does not care.

    Many people lost their businesses and many people lost hope for ireland and emmigration from Ireland has Skyrocketed. Nonetheless there is still to this day a complete halt on testing for HIV.

    This is a bad situation gotten much worse. That is my update!


    Was covid a result from gain of function research and is the World Health Organisation trying to fix a leak from a ill equipped bl3 lab. Is covid a natural virus. Where do we go from here?

    Gain of function research was halted in 2014 indefinetly, Gain of function research is where an oragnism such as H5N1 recives a new property or enhances an existing one by genetic engineering, the H5N1 virus was gentically modified to allow it to transmit through air droplets among ferrets, when the World Health Organisation found out about this study in the USA, it banned Gain of function research indefinetly.

    Consequently the USA found a loop hole in the wording of the restriction and decided then to secretly continue gain of function research and used the lab in Wuhan to get around the restriction handed down by the world health orgnisation. They then turned their attention to the covid virus.

    After the SARS-CoV pandemic of 2003, wildlife sampling efforts in China revealed many SARS-like coronaviruses in bats. To assess the potential of these viruses for infecting humans, their spike protein encoding genes were substituted into the SARS-like CoV WIV1. These recombinant viruses reproduced in human airway cells – no different from WIV1 – but at least one caused more severe disease in mice.

    The lab at Wuhan was not at the level required to carry gain to function research. My point does follow but essentially the truth is gain of function research will continue, presticides. gentically modified food will continue, and our immune systems grow weaker, and all we can do is hope they make the laboratorys safer and less likely to leak. While you might be led to belive you can stop covid, the truth obviously was that you can never stop covid and any other subsquent leak.

    What we do have is a chance here to stop the spread of HIV and that is what we should be doing. Talk to the media and demand they fix the problem with our very own Wuhan lab right here in ireland at St James hospitable and the Health Minister who thinks it is his job to deal with Covid.

    They wont stop gain of function research, at the very most they might improve the saftey of the labatories they work in, all this covid is waste of time if they are going to continue gain of function research, it will just keep leaking from dodgy labs in China funded by overly eager, rich americans who want to be famous and discover a vaccine and get their name in some magazine.

    What we can do is at least get rid of HIV, I woudl rather live with covid and chicken pox than HIV.

    Disclaimer: I do not have HIV and I am not drug addict or drug user, or a homosexual.

    We do not need HIV and what we need is common sense. No one would wish HIV on anyone. If the goverment did not care in 2019 about ireland being classified as epidemic for HIV and if the irish media did not care about us back in 2019, then why do we feel the goverment and media care about us now. Whether it is an opiod epidemic with oxycontin killing hundreds of thousands, the media turn a blind eye when it matters, and so does the goverment.

    Big pharma, Big pesticide companies and their agendas are what seem to matter and not a deadly virus like HIV, does it make sense not testing tens of thousands of new immigrants to control the disease but we are happy to put old people in prison for not wearing a mask, for staying in the house or hotel, for losing your job for not taking a vaccine.

    Get a control on HIV.

    Why does the Goverment set the agenda for what you and I care about. As citizens and it is our responsibility to make sure the goverment is acting with Common Sense. We need accountability in the Criminal Justice system because at the heart of the problem is the decades old agnatology and the core of the problem is always junk science. If you fail to tackle it, then you wont understand why your wearing a mask and forced to stay at home. It began with your freedom when Forensic science was abused. Accountability means Judges, police, and people that lie in court, provide false evidence and abuse restriction such as those set by the World health organisation are brought to account and the victims of their false testimoney are restored back to the position they were in before the miscarriage of justice occured.

    Join an organisation fighting injustice, that is the very heart of the matter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭pirelli



    I did contact everyone by email,phone and letter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭pirelli


    I just want to be clear, this was incorrect and I did follow up several months later and there was still no testing, no booking and no walk ins. This has remained the case for the last 3 years. Simon was misinformed and while he admits there were challenges he failed to recognise that there was still no testing 6 months later and then COVID hit and it just got worse.


    Post edited by pirelli on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭pirelli


    Executive Director of HIV Ireland Stephen O'Hare says the past 20 months has seen another barrier introduced to the fore - the Covid-19 pandemic. 

    There were significant delays in testing for the virus throughout 2020, which Stephen says has no doubt affected case number statistics going forward

    "In 2019 and 2020 there was less testing, and with less testing, you don’t know," he says. "As we learned with Covid, if you don’t test you don’t know where the virus is, but similarly when testing was limited you couldn’t see where it was."  


    THU, 05 AUG, 2021 - 06:35

    NIAMH GRIFFIN

    There is a probable “reservoir” of undiagnosed syphilis cases in the Cork and Kerry region, according to a HSE public health doctor.

    This comes as the latest national figures to July show 413 cases compared with 484 during all of 2018.

    The HSE has launched a national outbreak control team which Dr Peter Barrett, a public health specialist with HSE South, sits on. He said they are unsure why cases are rising so steadily.

    However, he said: “There was reduced testing going on, reduced access to testing for a long period in 2020 as a result of lockdown, as a result of the pandemic.

    “So we reckon there is likely to be a reservoir of undiagnosed cases out there.” 

    The early stages of syphilis can be asymptomatic and people can unknowingly infect their partners.

    People may think of this as a disease from the past, but that is not accurate, Dr Barrett said.

    “It is common, there are hundreds of cases diagnosed every year in Ireland,” he said.

    “Unfortunately we are seeing increases in the number being diagnosed both in our region of Cork and Kerry, and also nationally.”




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭pirelli


    My conclusion is Ireland should build a 'state of the art' Level 4 B Lab here in Ireland for Gain of function research. With oversight by the Irish Authorities, we would be the epicentre for the future of Modern medicine and vaccine and drug development. Rather than accept the failures of Wuhan and the Chinese system which is flawed, we could have a system that provides the world with an alternative to China with Ireland providing the safest and most pioneering laboratories in the world.

    I suggest we discuss this and consider this as a positive outcome from this mess, and become hence forward the safest country in europe.


    We still should strive for accountability in order to meet this paradigm shift and that starts in the criminal justice system.



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