Are all HIV positive in great risk if they get the coronavirus decease (COVID-19) and do they automatically belong to a risk group? How should you be prepared when there is a pandemic. Read the article and find out. This article was originally published at the Terrence Higgins Trust website and is written by Dr Michael Brady.
To prevent the spread of corona virus, Hivpoint services will have the following changes during the spring.
Finland has, for a long time, been regarded as one of the first countries to grant women the right to participate in politics, and it has still been deemed as one of the world’s leaders for promoting gender equality.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has set targets to help end the HIV epidemic. The targets are for 2020 and are called 90-90-90. These targets mean that by 2020, 90% of people living with HIV will know their status, 90% of people diagnosed with HIV will receive antiretroviral therapy and 90% of the people receiving this therapy will ...
Global and local campaigns have spread information about HIV not transmitting when a person is on effective HIV medication. The message is clear. When a person living with HIV has an undetectable viral load, HIV does not transmit even in sex without a condom. Sometimes people may think that the undetectable viral load means that an HIV test would ...
You might have heard the term “HIV epidemic”. The word epidemic usually refers to a widespread and infectious disease, but many do not know what an epidemic is when it comes to HIV. Epidemics do not have to be global and can be very concentrated amongst certain groups.
For this post, we interviewed Kirsi Liitsola from the Finnish National Institute of ...
Hivpoint is looking for health buddies to lead sexuality education workshops in migrant and refugee communities. The health buddies will spread knowledge about sexual health, including HIV and sexually transmitted infections, in their own communities using methods of their own liking. Read more about the health buddy program from
The price of PrEP medicine went down more than 30 percent today and is now less than 50€ for 30 pills! According to our survey targeted to men who have sex with men, 50 euros is the maximum price per month people are willing to pay for the PrEP meds.
Have you ever wondered how HIV medication works and if there is anything to consider when starting HIV treatment? We have talked to clinical doctor, Jussi Sutinen, who treats people living with HIV in Helsinki.
Once HIV is diagnosed, a resistance test of the virus will be made and after this the doctor will know what ...
The Hivpoint testing and counselling services are on break over the holidays.
The counselling services are closed 23 December 2019 to 7 January 2020.
The next HIV testing days:
See you next year!