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24.6.2020

Fahady promotes sexual health, sexual rights and equality

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...

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23.6.2020

Prep became available in Finland with help from a role model

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...

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22.6.2020

Proud role models advocating for better sexual health

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”...

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8.5.2020

Tom of Finland 100 years – Tom did his share in HIV prevention

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...

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21.4.2020

One year of PrEP in Finland

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 ...

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Hivpointin työntekijällä on prep-paita päällä ja prep-tabletti kädessä.
17.4.2020

Hivpoint welcomes PrEP – national guidelines are here, and more affordable generic medicines hit the market soon

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...

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15.1.2020

The price of PrEP medicine went down significantly in Finland

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 ...

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12.11.2019

STI testing for trans and non-binary people on Nov 19th

Hivpoint and Trasek are organizing an STI testing event for trans and non-binary people at Hivpoint’s Helsinki Office on November 19th at 5pm to 7pm. During the event ...

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6.6.2019

The amount of PrEP users in Finland is growing

The public health care system is starting to provide Pre-exposure prophylaxis treatment and affordable generic medicines are available now. The price for the medicine in ...

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