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World AIDS Day – I am Safe
I am living my rights Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise Related Posts: World AIDS Day 2010 – I am Living My Rights I am Well
World AIDS Day – I am Well
I am living my rights Stop AIDS. Keep The Promise. Related Posts: World AIDS Day 2010 – I Am Living My Rights
World AIDS Day 2010 – I Am Living My Rights
Image via Wikipedia STOP AIDS. KEEP THE PROMISE It is that time of year again. That Day when the worlds focus is on HIV/AIDS. The Day where we hope that the following year will be different. That maybe HIV infections will decrease. That maybe HIV won’t be passed on from mother to child. That maybe by listening people may change their habits and not be infected. That maybe we will find a cure. It is a day of hope....
World Suicide Prevention Day
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. According to the World Health Organisation 1 million people commit suicide every year. That makes 60 deaths per 100,000 a suicide. Or another way to put it, one death every 40 seconds. This years theme is “Many Faces, Many Places: Suicide Prevention across the World”. This is to highlight the growing problem of Suicide in the Developing World. Here in Ireland 527 people committed suicide in 2009. This could be increased by the...
Uniform Codeine Regulation Needed
As some of you may be aware I work for a pharmacy chain. As part of my job I cover the Pharmacy Counter. As of the 1st of August new regulations came in on the supply of products containing Codeine. This has created some confusion which is not helped by pharmacists! I have noticed from talking to friends, customers and pharmacists that each pharmacy and even sometimes branches within them, are adopting slightly different policies on the sale of...
Public Meeting on FairCare
Image via Wikipedia A public meeting will be held on Monday 8th of March at 8:00pm in Silversprings Morans Hotel Cork on the the new Fine Gael Health Policy “FairCare”. Speakers on the night will include Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny TD, Fine Gael Health Spokesperson Dr. James O’Reilly TD and Fine Gael Seanad Health Spokesperson Senator Francis Fitzgerald. Local elected representatives will also be in attendance. This is a good chance to find out more about the Fine...
Road Deaths: 240
Image by Getty Images via Daylife 2009 saw 240 people killed on Irish Roads. This is down (a record!!) 39 on last year. It is still a high figure. Among those killed were: 40 pedestrians, 7 cyclists, 128 were drivers 38 passengers 27 bikers. Road deaths can effect anyone. They leave devastation behind. My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those killed this. Here’s hoping that there will be less this year. So buckle up,...
“The Government took the finger off the pulse by managing treatment rather than risk”
The above is a quite from Dr Fiona Mulcahy, consultant at St James’s department of genito-urinary medicine and infectious diseases. It is her view on how the Government is tackling the HIV/AIDS issue in Ireland. This year will see Ireland’s rate of infection increase by 20%. This is all reported in the Irish Times. Dublin’s St James’s Hospital has reported the highest number of new HIV cases in one year since records began, with a 20 per cent increase...
We need to change how we refer to people with disabilities
On Wednesday I found this post by a parent of a child with disbilities trying to get people to stop using the “r-word” on twitter. It documents the responses she got, some make fun, but others take her point. We need more people like her! That post brought a tear to my eye. I rarely use the word, and now I will endeavour to use it less. Then while going through my news feeds I discovered this story on the Irish Examiner,...
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