Gay Men's Health Service, Baggot Street is movg lotn

Contents:

• GAY MEN'S HEALTH SERVICE INFORMATN
• GAY MEN'S HEALTH SERVICE STI CLIC
• THE ONLY GAY SEXUAL HEALTH CLIC IRELAND HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR THE WHOLE PANMIC
• HIV AMONG POTENTIAL OUTBREAKS FEARED BY GAY MEN’S HEALTH SERVICE
• GAY MEN’S HEALTH SERVICE, BAGGOT STREET IS MOVG LOTN
• GAY HEALTH FOM

GAY MEN'S HEALTH SERVICE INFORMATN

GMHS is Ireland’s only dited statutory sexual health and wellbeg service for gay and bisexual men, men who have sex wh men and the trans populatn. Gay Men's Health Service. Gay Health Fora.

The Gay Health Fom (GHF) is the natnal fom on the sexual health and wellbeg of the MSM muny Ireland. Organised by the Gay Men’s Health Service (GMHS) along wh Gay Health Network (GHN) sce 2003.

Accs to rearch and reports that have been nducted by, or wh the assistance of the Gay Men’s Health Service. Keep up to date wh HIV and STI rmatn data and other relevant reports available om Health Protectn Surveillance Centre () and Gay Health Network (). GMHS servic are open and ee to gay and bisexual men, men who have sex wh men and the trans muny.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH SERVICE STI CLIC

Gay Men's Health Service (GMHS), HSE, Meath Primary Care Centre, Heytbury Street, Dubl 8. The STI clil servic are for all gay, bisexual and men who have sex wh men (MSM) and transgenr people. Gay Men's Health Service (GMHS).

GMHS promot sexual health among gay, bisexual and men who have sex wh men, through unsellg and STI clil servic. Read more about the Gay Men's Health Service (GMHS). Dubl’s Gay Men’s Health Service—the GMHS—is one of the bit sexual health servic Ireland and the only one specifilly servg gay and bisexual men and trans people.

THE ONLY GAY SEXUAL HEALTH CLIC IRELAND HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR THE WHOLE PANMIC

Thoands of gay and bisexual men and trans people rely on for sential healthre cludg: STI ttg and treatment, HIV ttg, accs to HIV preventn tools like PEP and PrEP, vaccatns, unsellg, and more.

I am wrg about the ongog closure of the Gay Men’s Health Service (GMHS) and askg for your help to end the lays reopeng the clic. The extend absence of the GMHS is havg an alarmg impact on the sexual health of gay and bisexual men and trans people Dubl and Ireland.

It is a place where gay and bisexual men and trans people n be nfint that they will be rpected, that their needs will be unrstood and addrsed a non-judgemental way, and that they will be treated wh sympathy and unrstandg. Ireland's only dited sexual health clic for men who have sex wh men has been shut for the entirety of the COVID panmic, leavg more than 10, 000 people whout accs to sexual at the Gay Men’s Health Service (GMHS) Dubl had long been workg on prer agency ntracts.

HIV AMONG POTENTIAL OUTBREAKS FEARED BY GAY MEN’S HEALTH SERVICE

The rult is long term closure, and activists have warned VICE World News that this uld ntribute to a sexual health crisis among the cy’s gay populatn.

GAY MEN’S HEALTH SERVICE, BAGGOT STREET IS MOVG LOTN

“I spect we’ll be alg wh for a very long time to e, ” says Adam Shanley of muny anisatn opened 1992, ne months before Ireland even crimalised homosexualy.

“If you teract wh a GP who don’t unrstand the sexual landspe of a gay man, that n end up dog more damage than good, ” Shanley said.

GAY HEALTH FOM

The HSE also piloted sh24, an STI home-ttg k, which sold out hours, ditg that mand for STI ttg is sperate, wh people unsure where to seek Dubl gay man, who relied on the GMHS for ttg, reported wag two months wh symptomatic gonorrhea before he found accs to a clic last October.

Photo: Supplied by Act Up DublLeavt, of Act Up Dubl, says that gay men have reported “self-diagnosg and self-treatg wh antibtics” over the panmic, due to the difficulty of gettg treatment. Dpe beg traed by the clic, gag sential cultural petence alg wh the unique health needs of Dubl’s gay and bi men and trans muny, and buildg important relatnships wh service ers, staff were never provid wh permanent the panmic h, the agency staff were reployed to assist wh the COVID-19 rponse and many were offered permanent posns health servic elsewhere.

“A lot of were gay men, and we wanted to work there, we wanted to work for the muny we were part of. The closure of Ireland’s only dited sexual health clic for gay men has fuelled ncerns of a “massive surge” sexually transmted fectn outbreaks cludg ’s Gay Men’s Health Service (GMHS) shut s doors on March 19th last year as a nsequence of the panmic and has only recently rumed on a limed basis. Members of the gay muny and healthre profsnals have urged s immediate reopeng, particularly to screen for STIs and to expand s PrEP scheme – Pre Exposure Prophylaxis meditn taken to rce the chance of ntractg HIV.