SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE - HIV TESTING - LIMERICK - GALWAY AND WATERFORD

STI Clinic – Limerick

Limerick Regional Hospital,
Dooradoyle,
Limerick.
Phone: 061 482382
E-mail: std@mwhb.ie

Health Centre, Bishop Street, Limerick City, Co. Limerick
Tel: 061 417 054
Opening Hours: Mon, Tue, Fri 9.30-10.30, Thur 2.00-4.00
Wheelchair-accessible: Yes

Health Centre Kileely Road, Ballynanty Beg, Limerick City, Co. Limerick
Tel: 061 453 707
fax: 061 457 101
Opening Hours: Mon - Fri 9.30-1.00 & 2.00-5.00
Wheelchair-accessible: Yes


GALWAY
Contact Details
Postal Address:
Galway Bay Medical Centre
16 Merchants Road,
Galway, Ireland.

Phone: (091) 530054
From Outside Ireland: +353 91 530054
Fax: (091) 569020


STI Clinic – Waterford

Waterford Regional Hospital.
Phone: 051 842646 for all appointments.

Clinics in WRH Mondays 2-4pm.

Also St. Joseph's Hospital, Clonmel Wednesday 2-4pm.
Phone: 051 842 646

Also District Hospital Carlow Tuesday 12.30-2.30pm.
Phone: 051 842 646



STI Clinic – Galway
University Hospital,
Galway,
Co. Galway.
Phone: 091 252 200

HIV testing, STI screening and other sexual health services for the Western Region.
HIV+ support and referrals.


SURVEY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN IRELAND
Knowledge of sexual matters
Respondents were asked from which source they learned most about sexual matters when they were growing up.

Overall, 32% of all adults learned most from friends of about their own age, followed by 20% from lessons at school and 17% from their mother.

Women were twice as likely as men to say they learned most about sexual matters from a family member or other relative (32% and 13% respectively).

Men learned most about sexual matters when they were growing up from friends of their own age (38%).


First experience of sexual intercourse
18% of men and 7% of women reported having had sexual intercourse before they were sixteen.

Two thirds (66%) of adults who had experienced sexual intercourse used some form of contraceptive on their first occasion.

Four-fifths of adults aged 16-24 used a contraceptive on their first experience of sexual intercourse compared with 70% of those aged 25-34 and just over a half (55%) of those aged 35-44.

Contraception use
Respondents who had experienced sexual intercourse were asked which forms of contraceptive they, or their partner, had used in the previous twelve months.

40% of respondents had used a condom/sheath and 38% the pill.

17% of respondents had not used any form of contraceptive during this time.


Change in sexual lifestyle
Respondents were asked if they had changed their sexual lifestyle in any way or made any decisions about sex, because of concern about catching AIDS or HIV.

18% of men and 19% of women had changed their sexual lifestyle.

A half of respondents who changed their sexual lifestyle had started using a condom/sheath (49%), 43% stayed with just one partner and one quarter (24%) found out more about a person before having sexual intercourse.

7% of men and 5% of women who had experienced sexual intercourse had attended a Genito Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinic at some point in their lives.

A half of respondents who had attended a GUM clinic said they had changed their sexual lifestyle for fear of AIDS or HIV.