Tom Hurd has been an advocate for better sexual health and sex positivity for many years now. He refused to accept that sexual health was something people look at shamefully, and so he ...
” When I talk about HIV and ageing I’m creating a safer future for myself and others.” Risto is a 70-year-old active pensioner. Risto is also an HIV positive gay man who has done and...
Despite their young age, Havu Härmä has already made a big impact. When Havu started speaking out about their life on social media, they did not see it as activism, but as a way to alle...
Ahmed Fahady is one of the health buddies who work for Hivpoint, the Finnish HIV Foundation. Fahady has been active as a health buddy since 2019. Advocating sexual health is a matter of...
Sami Tuunainen works as a Sexual counselor at Hivpoint and is coordinator for the Checkpoint Express STI clinic project. Sami has been an active advocate for making PrEP accessible, ava...
Meet all of our Proud Role Models here: Sami , Fahady, Havu, Tom and Risto During the traditional Helsinki Pride week Hivpoint’s “Proud Role Model”...
What does the World Refugee Day mean? World refugee day is an event which is usually held every year on 20 June in order to raise awareness about the issues and circumstances which r...
Hi! I am Ekaterina — an international Business Management graduate from a Finnish university of applied Sciences. I am volunteering for the Finnish HIV Foundation – Hivpoint. In this ar...
8.5.2020 Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, has said to be the best-known Finnish visual artist. Tom’s art has had a huge impact to gay culture especially in the late 9...
The first preliminary findings of HIV positive people with COVID-19 have been published in The Lancet. It seems that people living with HIV do not have a greater risk of getti...
In the picture you can see PrEP activist/Mr. Fetish Finland 2019 Tom together with Hivpoint’s Sexual Counsellor/PrEP expert Sami proposing a toast to celebrate the end of long wait for ...
The National Institute for Health and Welfare recommends Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for people with a high risk for HIV transmission. As a part of a comprehensive prevent...
