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...
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. ...
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, ...
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 un...
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. Epi...
