Checkpoint Bern is a community-based health centre for queer people and a division of Aids Hilfe Bern, on the Schwarztorstrasse in the Monbijou quarter. The parent organisation sits two doors along at number 9.
What it offers is anonymous HIV and STI testing, treatment and referral, PrEP consultations, vaccinations, and psychosocial and LGBT+ counselling. There is a separate strand for LGBT+ migrants run as a safe space, and an interpreter can be arranged on request.
It is aimed at LGBT+ people generally, at men who have sex with men, at trans people, at sex workers, and at their partners and relatives. Testing and PrEP consultations are booked ahead rather than walked into. For a traveller it is the address to know if something needs sorting out while you are in the city.
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