The Red Ball 2019 - Address by Panti Bliss, Master of Ceremonies

Panti Bliss, Master of Ceremonies, addresses the Red Ball, 2019.

[@MindbodyMedic]

> As part of the public health service, HIV treatment (appointments, medication, or possible hospitalisation) is provided for free in Ireland regardless of your citizenship or whether you are working or not
> Of the diagnoses in 2018, 21% (n=109) were born in Ireland, 71% (n=370) were born abroad and 8% (n=44) did not have information on country of birth.
>Of the 370 HIV diagnoses among those born outside Ireland, 34% were born in sub-Saharan Africa and 36% were born in Latin America and the Caribbean, 9% from countries in Central and Eastern Europe and 11% from countries in Western Europe.
>76% of heterosexual female cases and heterosexual male cases were born in sub-Saharan Africa
Stats from HIV Ireland's own website

[@daniel_8181]

She/he is so eloquent! :)