Epi-Insight, Volume 20, 2019
Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2019
This issue contains:
- World AIDS Day and latest HIV data from Ireland
- STI Annual Epidemiological Reports, 2018
- Response to the threat of multi and extensively-drug resistant gonorrhoea: How are we doing?
- Get prepared for winter wellness
- Sexual Wellbeing campaign launched by HSE
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
- News round up
Volume 20, Issue 11, November 2019
This issue contains:
- Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake in the over 65s
- Latest HIV estimates in Ireland
- HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) available through the HSE from 4th November 2019
- Athlone Institute of Technology to launch Sláintecare funded Student Sexual Health Service
- Monitoring community HIV testing in Ireland
- Mobile Health and Screening Unit (MHSU) Safetynet Primary care
- Protecting mums and babies – a seasonal reminder of the importance of vaccination in prenatal care
- Legionellosis in the spotlight
- EU Joint Action SHARP – Ensuring a safer environment for all EU citizens
- Job vacancies at HPSC
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
- News round up
Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2019
This issue contains:
- Increase in typhoid notifications in travellers returning from Pakistan
- EMIS-2017 Ireland Report launch
- Vaccine Alliance launched by Ministers
- Surgical site surveillance - a national snapshot
- Safe Patient Care - Bugs and Drugs conference, Cork, September 2019
- Influenza bio-analytics online course
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
- News round up
Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2019
This issue contains:
- HPV E-Learning programme now available on HSELand
- Improved uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine by healthcare workers
- Higher specialist training in the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, RCPI
- Epidemiology of hepatitis A in Ireland, 2018
- When should my child return to school/childcare
- Congenital syphilis case definition updated
- EPIET Fellowship in HPSC
- Public health work placement in HPSC
- Vacancies in HPSC
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
- News round up
Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2019
This issue contains:
- Interim Director of HPSC
- Undercooked pork and the risk of hepatitis E infection
- Mumps outbreak in Ireland 2019
- Invasive pneumococcal disease and the impact of vaccines in Ireland, 2008-2018
- Protocol for Reporting and Management of cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Field Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology traveling photo exhibition
- Public health risks related to infectious diseases during Hajj 2019
- EPIET and EUPHEM Fellowship (EU-track) applications open
- Bugs and Drugs course, Cork, September 2019
- 2019 Safe Patient Care Infection Prevention & Control Course
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
- News round up
This issue contains:
- World Hepatitis Day - July 28th 2019
- Introduction of MenACWY vaccine for students starting secondary school in 2019
- New name for an old bug: Clostridium difficile becomes Clostridioides difficile
- Meningococcal disease - change to case definition
- 2019 Safe Patient Care Infection Prevention & Control Course
- Essentials of writing and reviewing scientific abstracts online course
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
This issue contains:
- 2019 Safe Patient Care Infection Prevention & Control Course
- Epidemiology of hepatitis C, 2018
- Landmark study on HIV infection published
- Hepatitis D Virus – a small but significant virus
- Reminder to boil frozen berries prior to consumption
- Lyme disease: raising awareness
- ECDC assessing and grading evidence in public health online course available
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
- News round up
This issue contains:
- WHO Influenza Vaccine Composition Meeting, Spring 2019
- STIs in young people in Ireland
- World Hand Hygiene Day - 5th May 2019
- HIV drug resistance in Ireland - improving prevalence estimates
- Point prevalence survey of hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial use in Irish hospitals
- Rotavirus notifications declined sharply in 2018
- Antimicrobial resistance and infection control work consolidated into AMRIC Division in HPSC
- Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus - a rare but significant viral infection
- Update on Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
- News round up
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2019
This issue contains:
- European Immunisation Week 2019 - celebrating vaccine heroes
- Thank you, Laura - Celebrating Laura Brennan, HPV vaccine advocate
- Mumps outbreak in Ireland, 2019
- Risk of tetanus – the importance of prevention through vaccination
- HPSC/IMRL Laboratory survey of diagnostic services for tuberculosis, May 2018
- Interim 2018/2019 influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates for Europe, October 2018 to January 2019
- Candida Laboratory Survey, 2018
- ECDC rapid risk assessment online course available
- News round up
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2019
This issue contains:
- Pregnancy and infectious diseases in Ireland
- HIV antenatal screening uptake almost 100% in Ireland
- The need to achieve high vaccine coverage to sustain rubella elimination in Ireland
- Pertussis - vaccinating mum is good for baby – update on antenatal pertussis vaccination
- World TB Day - March 24th 2019
- News round up
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2019
This issue contains:
- Trends in invasive meningococcal disease in Ireland, 1999-2019
- Infectious Disease (Amendment) Regulations 2018
- Change in national guidance for management of infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae without cephalosporin allergy
- Bathing Water and Health - HSE Guidance 2019
- Spring is in the air: Take care when in contact with young farm animals
- Dengue update
- Call for submissions - The Pregnancy Issue, March 2019
- News round up
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2019
This issue contains:
- HIV testing - need to improve coverage and uptake
- Clostridium difficile infection in Ireland, 2017
- Latest data on Sexually Transmitted Infections in Ireland
- iGAS and iGBS annual reports for 2017
- Call for submissions - The Pregnancy Issue, March 2019
- Latest HPSC Reports and Publications
Last updated: 3 December 2019