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KARO, Plauen

Name of association/service provider

KARO, Plauen

Address

Am Unteren Bahnhof 12, Plauen
08527, Sachsen, Germany
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Telephone

03741 40 37 999 / 03741 27 68 51

Fax

03741 27 68 53

Web site

Hot Line

0173 97 55 374 / 0173 97 55 374

Local Hot Line

AIDS
Drugs
Trafficking
Violence

Working days and hours

Morning Afternoon Night
From To From To From To
monday
tuesday
wednesday 12:00 17:00
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday

Type of organisation

NGO

Types of services offered

  • Health
  • Legal Advice
  • Social

Cost of services

  • Free
  • Partially Free
  • The children and women shelter is partially paid for.

Services provided to

  • All

Nature of services

  • Anonymous
  • Confidential
  • Registration with initials or nickname
  • Registration with true identity

Where do you offer your services

  • Counselling Centre
  • Outreach

Available professionals

  • Cultural Mediators
  • Interpreters

Professionals in place

  • Endocrinologists
  • Gynaecologists
  • Lawyers
  • Medical Doctors
  • Nurses
  • Outreach Workers
  • Peer Educators
  • Psychologists
  • Social Assistants
  • Social Workers

Languages spoken in your services

  • Czech
  • English
  • German

Multilingual information materials

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Rumenian
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Health services provided

  • Abortion
  • Condoms + safe sex materials
  • Contraception
  • Counselling Hepatitis B + C
  • Counselling Urgent Exposition HIV
  • Gynaecology
  • HIV Counselling before and after Testing
  • HIV Prevention and Health Promotion (Information + Advise)
  • Mental Health
  • Needle exchange
  • Pre and Post Natal care
  • Pregnancy Testing

Social services provided

Legal advice provided

Are STI tests mandatory?

No

Remarks

KARO has two councelling centres: one on the German border - in Plauen - and one on the Czech border - in Cheb.    

KARO offers also:    

- A baby drop-off box (Babyklappe). 24 hours free hotline for counselling: 0173 97 55 374    

- A shelter for children and women. 24 hours hotline: 0173 37 88 990