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Today is Irish Aids Day

Today is Irish Aids Day

By Cillian Doyle.

Today is Irish Aids Day.

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449 people were diagnosed with the disease in the country last year, and almost 10,000 since records began.

Shane had no symptoms, went for a routine checkup and found out he was HIV positive.

Speaking on Beat's documentary "Open Your Eyes to STIs", he has this advice:

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"I would massively encourage everyone to practice safe sex - you could end up like me living with HIV, which is not a life-threatening disease anymore - but it complicates things - so you should do all that you can to make sure you don't get this disease"

Listen back to our documentary "Open Your Eyes to STIs" below

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