asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the details of the Government AIDS programme.
208.
Written Answers. - AIDS Programme.
45.
asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the arrangements he will make to ensure a continuing campaign of information and awareness about the hazards of AIDS, now that the Health Education Bureau is to be wound up; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 45 and 208 together. The details of the Government's AIDS strategy are as follows: a monitoring system was established in 1984 under which AIDS cases are reported to the deputy chief medical officer of the Department of Health on a confidential and voluntary basis; all blood donations are screened for the AIDS virus and those at risk are asked not to donate blood or orgaus; only heat-treated blood products are used here and Ireland is practically self-sufficient in blood products produced for the domestic blood supply.