The HSE wants to use the results of a new survey on the sexual habits of gay men to help stop the spread of HIV.
According to the health authority, for the past two years homosexual men accounted for the highest number of new HIV diagnoses in Ireland, at 46 per cent.
The survey goes live online today at misi.ie where a questionnaire can be filled out by any homosexual man living in Ireland over the age of 18.
Doctor Derval Igoe is a specialist in public health medicine with the HSE - she says answers will be treated in the strictest of confidence:
