On the occasion of the\u00a0World AIDS Day<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 World AIDS Day \u2013 December 1,\u00a0Rome Checkpoint<\/b>, screening service\u00a0HIV\u00a0<\/b>and STI managed by Gay Center with the support of Arcigay Roma, publishes data from the HIV testing service at a specific and free check-point.<\/p>\n
The data refers to the last year. Data analysis highlights and confirms a strong demand for these types of services in the local area, at non-hospital times and locations.\u00a0To date, the few organizations present in Lazio are managed on a voluntary basis and with limited funding, as in the case of Roma Checkpoint and Latina Checkpoint.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to the\u00a0support from the Lazio Region\u00a0<\/b>This year too, Roma Checkpoint has managed to offer stable and long-lasting support, as a point of reference in the capital, thanks to the associations' decades-long experience\u00a0Gay Center and Arcigay Rome\u00a0<\/b>in the prevention field. The data collected confirms the need for this free, rapid, anonymous, and non-hospital service. He declares:\u00a0Pietro Turano, spokesperson for Gay Center.<\/b><\/p>\n On the occasion of World AIDS Day, December 1st, Roma Checkpoint, an HIV and STI screening service run by Gay Center with the support of Arcigay Roma, is publishing\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaycenter.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cThe service data reveals that 77% of the tested people are male and 60% are homosexual. It is noteworthy that\u00a025% of the people tested had never taken an HIV test<\/b>: this confirms the importance of reaching a target that does not turn to hospital services. The 64% of those tested \u2013 adds\u00a0Francesco Angeli, President of Arcigay Rome<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 prefers to be tested in a non-hospital setting, such as at the Roma Checkpoint.\u00a0The 35% tested is less than 25 years old.<\/b>, a category particularly at risk and vulnerable due to lack of information, and increasing compared to last year.\u00a0Alarmingly, more than 651 TP3T of the people tested, a growing figure, had at least one risky relationship in the space of a year.<\/b>\u201d" concludes Francesco Angeli, President of Arcigay Roma. In support of the activities of the Roma Checkpoint\u00a0On December 3rd at 8pm PoppeParty, a Roman LGBT Saturday night event, together with the Ballrhome project of Gay Center, the Red Ribbon Kiki Ball<\/b>. Meet at Monk's at Via Mirri, 35.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"