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	New HIV cases have reached their highest point in five years.</p>
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	Figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre show that last year 377 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in Ireland - an increase of 11% on 2013.</p>
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	This was largely down to a rise in the number of infections among gay men and injecting drug users.</p>
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	According to the Irish Examiner&#39;s Cormac O&#39;Keefe, so far this year there have been a further 168 cases of new HIV diagnoses.</p>
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	Last year&#39;s cases include 183 new cases among men who have sex with men, 125 new cases among heterosexuals - the lowest on record - and 27 cases among injecting drug users.</p>
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	Advocacy group HIV Ireland said the rise in new infections was a &ldquo;great cause of concern&rdquo; and said public debate on HIV and Aids was &ldquo;being deafened by silence&rdquo;.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/2015/06/15/new-hiv-infections-at-highest-in-five-years/">http://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/2015/06/15/new-hiv-infections-at-highest-in-five-years/</a></p>
