Stop sida offers a testing service to detect antibodies anti-HIV. As it is easy to arrive to the gay community, it promotes early diagnostics. Our service has wanted to be distinguished by quality and a charming attention, as well as a quick delivery of results in order to avoid waiting lists.

The service provides the homosexual community with an adequate frame to carry out the HIV test, and we give special importance to the previous and following counselling. We guarantee complete confidential and anonymous service. It's also a free service.

Our service starts every Saturday morning. Before doing the test, as it's an important step, our volunteers give information about advantages and objections of it. We also analyse with the user the reasons he/she has to do it, and the support he/she will have whether the result is positive or negative. It's important that the user can evaluate if this is the right time for the test. The volunteer assisting this service is also trained for counselling, giving information and listening to the user when the result is given.

In our office, a nurse does the extraction of the blood and in one week the result is already prepared to be given by the same volunteer that attended the person the first Saturday. This result can only be given personally to the person who asked for the test, nor to a friend not relative.

Our team is composed of gay and lesbian volunteers, so we work from the gay and lesbian community for the gay and lesbian community. Our service was born in order to offer a place that makes people feel free to talk about their sexual relations without prejudices.

If you want to access to the test service call us at the office number: 902 10 69 27 (Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00).

“Knowing our history: 1996-2002”

In this picture you can see the evolution of the stop sida’s HIV Test Service. Our service has the aim of basing personalized attention in peer counselling before and after the test to contribute that men who have sex with men (MSM) and women who have sex with women (WSW) make their minds about the importance of prevention. This will help them to acquire healthier attitudes.

Here there are some data related to the 1996-2002 period. This results come from the data given by the users and also from their own evaluation of the service.

This picture was presented as a poster in the year 2002 in the XIV International Aids Conference that took place in Barcelona from the 7th to 12th of july.

Peer Counselling

What’s peer counselling? It’s a method and a philosophy where the basic aim is the conviction that the majority of us are able to solve our problems if we have the opportunity to show it. What the counselor does in peer counselling is not solving other’s problems but help him or her to find his or her own solutions. Through the active listening skills, the counselor helps the user to make his thoughts and feelings more clear and to explore different options or solutions.

As counsellors, we should not tell the user what can or cannot do. We don’t advise. We don’t make interpretations or diagnosis, because we’re not professionals so we don’t assume that we know better what the other thinks or feels.

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