I may be wrong, but I think HIV sufferers have always received free treatment in Ireland as well. Mind you, given that the government was directly responsible for infecting many of the early victims (Haemophiliacs) it would be a poor bloody show if treatment wasn't free.
what? What's idiotic about that? you realise that by saying "SF" I'm using the commonly used abreviation for Cystic Fibrosis, right?
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