AS PART OF TheJournal.ie’s Sex Week series, Dr Aisling Loy, a sexual health and HIV specialist working in Dublin’s Heytesbury Street clinic told us about the patients she sees on a daily basis.

Irish people in general still have a very unevolved attitude to sexual health maintenance, said Dr Loy.

“Most people who come to me have self-diagnosed, usually with HIV or Syphilis through the internet.”

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