Rapid testing service to fight HIV spread

Health Minister Leo Varadkar, said rapid HIV testing would be offered in colleges, workplaces and in public places.

Rapid testing service to fight HIV spread

Funding of €150,000 has been provided to launch Dublin’s first free rapid HIV testing service and to support similar services in Cork and Limerick. People attending pubs will be offered a 30-second HIV test on a night out under the plan to curb the surge of the disease.

New HIV diagnoses have been increasing in Ireland — provisional figures show there were 388 new diagnoses this year — a rise of 65 over the previous year.

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