New counselling schedule: HIV phone helpline +358 207 465 705 is open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9.30 am to 12.00 pm. Hivpoint.fi online chat counselling is open on Mondays, T...
Since 2021, the Funding Centre for Social Welfare and Health Organisations (STEA) has cut funding to Hivpoint by approximately EUR 300,000 per year. This is about 25% of the budget. As ...
COVID-19 vaccines offer effective protection against the COVID-19 disease and especially its severe forms. Because the number of available vaccines is limited in the beginning, they are...
Great news! Free PrEP treatment is finally coming to Finland! The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health informed 30th of December 2020 that according to the new Act on social and health...
Hivpoint organizes an STI testing clinic for trans and non-binary people at Hivpoint’s Helsinki office on 17th of November from 4pm to 6pm. The testing event is part of yearly TransHels...
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”...
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...
