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PRO tukipiste

Name of association/service provider

PRO tukipiste

Address

Vilhonkatu 4 B 20, Helsinki
00100, Finland
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Telephone

+358 9 7262877

Fax

+358 9 72310250

Hot Line

35897262877

Local Hot Line

AIDS
Drugs
Trafficking
Violence

National Hot Line

AIDS
Drugs
Trafficking
Violence

Working days and hours

Morning Afternoon Night
From To From To From To
monday 11:00 12:00 12:00 17:00
tuesday 10:00 12:00 12:00 17:00
wednesday 10:00 12:00 12:00 17:00 18:30 22:30
thursday 10:00 12:00 12:00 17:00
friday 10:00 12:00 12:00 17:00
saturday
sunday

Type of organisation

NGO

Types of services offered

  • Health
  • Legal Advice
  • Social

Cost of services

  • Free

Services provided to

  • sex workers
  • Also for ex sex workers and theirclosefriends and family members

Nature of services

  • Anonymous
  • Confidential
  • Registration with initials or nickname
  • Registration with initials or nickname required for eg. STI tests that are sent to laborary

Where do you offer your services

  • Ambulatory
  • Counselling Centre
  • Drop-in on community basis
  • Drop-in on institutional basis
  • Outreach
  • Telephone, Internet, chat-line

Available professionals

  • Cultural Mediators
  • Interpreters

Professionals in place

  • Lawyers
  • Legal Advisers
  • Medical Doctors
  • Nurses
  • Outreach Workers
  • Social Assistants
  • Social Workers

Languages spoken in your services

  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Russian
  • Swedish
  • Thai

Multilingual information materials

  • Albanian
  • Bulgarian
  • Czech
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Rumenian
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Thai
  • Ukrainian

Health services provided

  • Cervical Cancer Test
  • Condoms + safe sex materials
  • Contraception
  • Counselling Hepatitis B + C
  • Counselling Urgent Exposition HIV
  • Counselling gender identity
  • General Health
  • HIV Counselling before and after Testing
  • HIV Prevention and Health Promotion (Information + Advise)
  • HIV Testing
  • Hepatitis Testing
  • Mental Health
  • Needle exchange
  • Pregnancy Testing
  • Quick Test HIV
  • Reduction of Harm for Drug Users (Information + Advise)
  • STI Testing
  • STI Treatment
  • Tuberculosis Screening
  • Vaccination Hepatitis B
  • infections that do not require hospitalisation or assessment and treatment by a specialist doctor (eg.localised infections due to IV drug use, UTI'S)
  • Referrals to specialist medical services (eg.abortion, substance use problems, psychiatry)

Social services provided

Legal advice provided

Are STI tests mandatory?

No

Remarks

Drop-in available for sex workers & ex sex workers every Mon and Thurs 12-16

Special Thai drop-in once a month on Wed 9-12

Street outreach + community drop-in every Wed 18.30-22.30

Outreach to bars/clubs targeting women once a month Tues 20-01

Outreach to bars / clubs targeting men and transpeople once a month Thurs 20-01

On line chat every Tues 14.30-15.30 (for men and transpeople)

Acupuncture group once a week on Wed 14-15

One to one appointments via prior arrangement, also outside service premises.