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On Monday, 13 February 2023, on the occasion of the International Condom Day, the UNIC Department of Student Affairs, the Mobile Clinic, and the Medical Centre, in collaboration with the AIDS Solidarity Movement Cyprus, organised a Sexual Health event on campus. The participants had the opportunity to learn more about safer sexual practices, including PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis) and PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophylaxis), receive free condoms, lubricants and informative material and get tested for HIV/Syphilis. The screening tests were conducted by Cy Checkpoint, the Testing and Prevention Centre for HIV and Sexual Transmitted Infections. Prior to the event, Medical [...]

“A future pandemic is a certainty – it's a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’”, said Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Europe, during his lecture on campus, titled “Pandemic Recovery and Global/Regional Health Security.” The lecture was organised by the Medical School’s Department of Primary Care and Population Health on Friday, 29 January 2023. Dr Kluge said that an exhausted health workforce is at a breaking point while strengthening our collective health security architecture at national, regional and global levels “is so urgent” and in referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, [...]

Vaccination for seasonal influenza / Εμβολιασμός για την εποχική γρίπη 26 September 2022 ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINE ADMINISTRATION GHS beneficiaries who fall under the following high-risk groups, as defined by the Ministry of Health, are entitled to receive the flu vaccine: (Please note that (a) based on instructions by the Ministry of Health and according to current data, there must be a period of 14 days between receiving a dose of a seasonal influenza vaccine and receiving a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, (b) people who do not belong in high-risk groups will be [...]