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The 25th International AIDS Conference, the world's most important meeting on HIV and AIDS, took place in Munich from 22 to 26 July 2024. The motto of the conference is ‘Put People First’ - putting people at the centre.

• east Influence of the colonial era on the fight against HIV
• east 40 years of community leadership
• east Colonial-era laws make the fight against HIV more difficult
• east Community-based research: Improving access to PrEP
• east Trans Men and HIV
• east Lenacapavir – Miracle Drug of the Future?
• east How can access to PEP and PrEP be improved in rural African areas?
• east Opportunities and risks in the digital age
• east HIV and mental health
• east Long-acting PrEP: what measures should be taken to encourage its implementation and access?

The Swiss AIDS Federation's Safer Sex Guide serves as an orientation aid for professionals in prevention counselling.

• east Safer Sex Guidelines

There are still no guidelines in Switzerland for the antibiotic prophylaxis of bacterial STIs with the antibiotic doxycycline (DoxyPEP, DoxyPrEP). The working paper of the Swiss AIDS Federation provides an up-to-date overview.

• east Working paper of the Swiss AIDS Federation

The guidelines describe the indication and application of HIV-PrEP.

• east SwissPrEPared-Guidelines

The FOPH guidelines describe the indication and use of HIV PEP. The supplementary document from Swiss AIDS Federation (SAF) provides practical information for specialist agencies and hospitals.

• east FOPH guidelines
• east SAF recommendations

The EACS (European AIDS Clinical Society) guidelines provide information on HIV therapy, opportunistic infections, comorbidities and more. The drug table of the Swiss AIDS Federation provides an overview of the preparations approved in Switzerland.

• east EACS-Guidelines
• east Drug table of the Swiss Aids Federation

The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of syphilis.

• east SSI-Guidelines Syphilis

The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea.

• east SSI-Guidelines Gonnorhea

The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of chlamydia.

• east SSI-Guidelines Chlamydia

The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of Mycoplasma genitalium.

• east SSI-Guidelines Mycoplasma genitalium

The guidelines provide specialist information on the treatment of an Mpox infection.

• east SSI/EKSI recommendations for Mpox treatment

The guidelines and documents define the services of test offers in medical and non-medical practice.

• east VCT Guidelines
• east PICT Guidelines
• east HIV: Diagnostic window
• east HIV self-test

«Stop HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and sexually transmitted infections - National Program (NAPS)» is the name of the program with which Switzerland is pursuing an ambitious goal: By 2030, there should be no more transmissions of HIV and the hepatitis B and C viruses.

• east NAPS 2024

The Federal Office of Public Health publishes the most important statistics on sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis B/C every year.

• east Current HIV/STI statistics and analyses
• east Data on HIV and AIDS

From July 23 to 26, 2023, the International AIDS Society held its 12th conference on the scientific challenges related to HIV.

• east HIV elimination is possible

The «AIDSimpact» conference took place in Stockholm from June 12 to 14, 2023. The international symposium dealt with psychosocial and community-based topics on prevention and living with HIV.

• east Is AI replacing human HIV prevention?
• east HIV epidemic despite cure?
• east Access to information for migrants
• east Improving the quality of life of MmHIV
• east Ukrainian refugees with HIV

The 11th German-Austrian AIDS Congress (DÖAK) took place in Bonn from March 23-25, 2023. Under the motto «HIV and AIDS - (not) a generational issue», new scientific findings on HIV and ageing as well as the significance and impact of HIV across all generations were discussed.

• east Positive voices: Recommendations for action
• east Sex positivity or sex neutrality
• east Sexual health in trans and abinary communities

The world's largest conference on HIV/AIDS took place from July 29 to August 2, 2022 in Montréal. In the blog, we report on the most important results and insights for our work in Switzerland.

• east The criminalization of HIV
• east Chemsex Symposium: We are not there yet
• east Involvement means participation
• east HIV and NCD
• east Social cohesion in sex work

Interaction checker for HIV drugs.

• east to the interaction checker

Checkpoint is a promise: the health of our communities is our top priority. We meet the diverse needs of gay, bisexual, lesbian, queer, trans and non-binary people in an uncomplicated and high-quality manner.

• east Checkpoint Minimal Standards (in French and German)