{"id":164926,"date":"2025-11-28T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164926\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:45:16","slug":"ireland-had-second-highest-rate-of-hiv-diagnoses-in-eu-last-year-amid-concern-over-late-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164926\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland had second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in EU last year, amid concern over late detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Campaigners push for greater access to preventative drug PrEP\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There was a rise in first-time HIV diagnoses in this country in 2024 compared with 2023. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/345d1177-0f9a-4a5f-ab10-03b73c47e724.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">There was a rise in first-time HIV diagnoses in this country in 2024 compared with 2023. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland had the second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in the EU last year, with four in 10 people here with the virus only finding out they had it at a late stage of the illness, new figures show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There was a rise in first-time HIV diagnoses in this country last year compared with 2023, and levels are similar to those seen pre-pandemic \u2013 but there is a lengthy waiting list for \u00adpeople who want to take PrEP medication which greatly reduces the chance of contracting the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners push for greater access to preventative drug PrEP There was a rise in first-time HIV diagnoses in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4593,103,2120,61,60,4829],"class_list":["post-164926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}