New HIV diagnosis rates in Ireland now at an all time high.

Truvada, a branded version of PrEP. (Image: DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)

HIV rates in Ireland have risen again this year with numbers now higher than they were at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

There have been 476 new diagnoses of HIV in Ireland this year so far compared to…