Aidshilfe Hamm calls itself the counselling centre for sexual health and diversity, and it has been running since 1985. It sits on the Ostenallee in Hamm-Mitte.
The practical part for a visitor is testing. HIV and other sexually transmitted infections are tested here, confidentially and anonymously, and it costs nothing.
Alongside the testing there is queer counselling and trans counselling. The subjects it names itself are coming out, relationships, sexual health, queer families, discrimination and violence, and loneliness. Two groups meet in the rooms, a rainbow breakfast for people living with HIV together with their family and friends, and a group for people who are HIV positive.
The centre also promotes the open queer Stammtisch that a local association holds once a month in a bar in the city centre.
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