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Comprehensive information on HIV and sexually transmitted infections with guidelines, conference reports and webinar recordings.
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European LGBTIQ+ Health Conference
The second conference on LGBTIQ+ health took place in Brussels from 21 to 23 May 2025. The diverse conference brought together experts from Europe and Central Asia and presented innovative projects and the latest research findings.
Chemkon Berlin 2025
The German-language conference on chemsex and sexualised substance use took place from 28-29 March 2025. The interdisciplinary conference offered a wide range of insights into a complex phenomenon.
EMIS-2024 Switzerland: National Report
EMIS is the largest European MSM online survey designed to better understand the health and experiences of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and non-binary individuals.
Sexual health for trans people
Sexual health for trans people – Guidelines for HIV/STI professionals Guidelines for professionals on how to design more trans-friendly services in counselling, testing and prevention.
Female Sex Work
Sexual health for sex workers: guidelines and position papers.
HIV Glasgow 2024
From November 10-13, 2024, the “HIV Drug Therapy” conference, which has been held for over thirty years, took place in Glasgow. The medically oriented conference offered various focal points.
HIVR4P 2024
The fifth edition of HIV4P was held in Lima (Peru) from 6 to 10 October 2024. This conference of the International Aids Society (IAS) encourages interdisciplinary exchanges on the vaccination, prevention, protection and treatment of HIV and other STIs.
AIDS 2024
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.
- Influence of the colonial era on the fight against HIV
- 40 years of community leadership
- Colonial-era laws make the fight against HIV more difficult
- Community-based research: Improving access to PrEP
- Trans Men and HIV
- Lenacapavir – Miracle Drug of the Future?
- How can access to PEP and PrEP be improved in rural African areas?
- Opportunities and risks in the digital age
- HIV and mental health
- Long-acting PrEP: what measures should be taken to encourage its implementation and access?
Safer Sex
The Swiss AIDS Federation's Safer Sex Guide serves as an orientation aid for professionals in prevention counselling.
DoxyPEP
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.
HIV-PEP
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.
HIV
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.
Syphilis
The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of syphilis.
Gonorrhea
The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea.
Chlamydia
The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of chlamydia.
Mycoplasma genitalium
The guidelines of the Swiss Society for Infectiology SSI provide specialist information on the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of Mycoplasma genitalium.
Mpox
The guidelines provide specialist information on the treatment of an Mpox infection.
HIV test
The guidelines and documents define the services of test offers in medical and non-medical practice.
National Program
«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.
Epidemiology
The Federal Office of Public Health publishes the most important statistics on sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis B/C every year.
IAS 2023
From July 23 to 26, 2023, the International AIDS Society held its 12th conference on the scientific challenges related to HIV.
AIDSimpact 2023
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.
DÖAK 2023
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.
Aids 2022
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.
Checkpoint Minimal Standards
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.