Sep 30, 2016 | Featured, Health
The Union of Students in Ireland has launched its online SHAG (Sexual Health Awareness Guide) week, urging young people to get into the habit of getting tested regularly, after a HSE report showed an increase of 22.1% in Syphilis from 2014 to 2015. Early infectious...
Sep 27, 2016 | Budget, Featured, Funding, Health
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is supporting The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) in their protest outside the Dáil calling for the restoration of incremental credit for nurses and midwives who graduated between 2011 and 2015 on Tuesday the 27th...
Sep 9, 2016 | Featured, Health
USI and PleaseTalk have launched the national student support card ahead of Suicide Awareness Day on Saturday the 10th September. There were 20,000 student support cards distributed across Irish college campuses on Friday, the 9th September. According to the...
Sep 1, 2016 | Featured, Health, RELEASES
The Union of Students in Ireland has released a statement today, ahead of tomorrow’s Electric Picnic Festival, urging students to remain vigilant against drugs and to never take any unknown substances, or from anyone they don’t know. A 2015 UN report revealed that...
Jun 14, 2016 | Campaigns, Featured, Health, RELEASES
The Union of Students in Ireland are teaming up with Operation Zero tomorrow, the 15th June at 9am on Irish AIDS Days at HIV Ireland, 70 Eccles Street with the message ‘no shame, no judgment, just support!’ to encourage students to get tested, as new figures from...
Jun 14, 2016 | Campaigns, Featured, Health, RELEASES
The Union of Students in Ireland are teaming up with Operation Zero tomorrow, the 15th June at 9am on Irish AIDS Days at HIV Ireland, 70 Eccles Street with the message ‘no shame, no judgment, just support!’ to encourage students to get tested, as new figures from...
