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Links by Region

Aberdeen

Aberdeen LGB Youth Group

t 01224 272975
e [email protected]
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~src038/


Aryshire

Out & Loud on Aryshire (OLA)

Aryshire Central Hospital
Irvine,
t 01294 323473


Dumfries and Galloway

Nexus (Dumfries and Galloway)

Youth Group,
Helpline on Tuesday Evenings
t 01387 261 818
e [email protected]


Dunbarton

PhaceWest

49 Bath Street,
Glasgow G2 2DL
(use for contacting Lanarkshire and Dumbarton LGB Youth groups)
t 0141 332 3838
f 0141 332 3755


Dundee

In Touch Youth Group (Dundee)

Contact: Dundee LGB Switchboard
PO Box 53,
Dundee
DD1 3YG,
t 01382 202620
(Mondays 7:00-10:00pm)
e [email protected]
http://www.dundeelgb.freeserve.co.uk


Glasgow

Steve Retson Project

Sandyford Centre, 2-6 Sandyford Place, Glasgow.
Tuesdays 5:30-8:30pm

New number for appointments and enquiries - 0141 211 8628

http://www.steveretsonproject.org.uk

PhaceWest

49 Bath Street,
Glasgow G2 2DL
(use for contacting Lanarkshire and Dumbarton LGB Youth groups)
t 0141 332 3838
f 0141 332 3755

Glasgow LGBT Centre

Celebrating equality and diversity in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
http://www.glgbt.org.uk/

Edinburgh

Gay Men's Health

10a Union Street
EDINBURGH EH1 3LU
http://www.gmh.org.uk

GUM (Genito Urinary Medicine) Clinic
http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/health_services/access/genito.html

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Level 4, Lauriston Building
39 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9YW
Tel : 0131 536 2103 (appointments – men)
Tel : 0131 536 2104 (appointments – women)

You may have to arrange an appointment up to 4 weeks in advance but there is a walk-in clinic, where no appointment is necessary, from 9.00am until 10.00am, Monday to Friday. Currently there are no evening clinics. Same day HIV tests are available Monday – Thursday between 8.30am and 10.30am with results available from 3.30pm the same day.

As well as HIV tests, GUM provides sexual health check-ups and treatments. All results are totally confidential. A full check-up normally involves a swab from the penis, a urine sample and a blood test. You may also have a rectal and throat swab taken. A complete sexual health screening would test for :

HIV Counselling Clinic

RIDU (Regional Infectious Diseases Unit)
Western General Hospital
Crewe Road South
Edinburgh
EH4 2XU
0131 537 2864
http://www.link.med.ed.ac.uk/RIDU/

Appointments can normally be arranged within 1 – 2 weeks. Same day tests are available on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 8.45am and 10.30am. Results are available within 48 hours for tests done on:
Mondays 9.00am – 5.00pm, Tuesdays 9.00am – 7.00pm,
Fridays 9.00am – 4.30pm
Advice on all aspects of HIV infection, including issues regarding having a test is available from the clinic.

Positive Help

13a Great King Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6QW
Tel : 0131 558 1122

Positive Help works with those who are diagnosed HIV, their families, friends and carers. The project recruits and trains volunteers, matches volunteers with those in need of practical assistance, and responds to requests for assistance from those in need.

Positive Voice

37-39 Montrose Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 5DJ
Tel : 0131 652 0754

http://www.positive-voice.org.uk/

Positive Voice is a self help organisation for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Lothian which offers advocacy and peer support as well as complementary therapies. All services are free.

ROAM Outreach

ROAM Outreach Team
Spittal Street Centre
22-24 Spittal Street
EDINBURGH
EH3 9DU

[email protected]
Tel: 0131 537 8300

http://www.roam-outreach.com

A confidential and anonymous service for cruising men and male sex workers, providing outreach and support – online and in cruising areas, sexual health and safer sex information, police and legal facts, drug advice, personal safety tips, free condoms and lube.

Waverley Care Solas

2/4 Abbeymount
Edinburgh
EH8 8EJ
Tel : 0131 661 0982

http://www.waverleycare.org/

SOLAS provides support services, information and an informal meeting place for people living with HIV. JUICE is an informal support and social group for gay and bisexual men affected by HIV/AIDS and meets on Fridays at Solas. Newly diagnosed men and long term survivors are welcome.

Waverley Care Buddies

Waverley Care Buddy Service
113 Oxgangs Road North
Edinburgh
EH14 1EB
Tel: 0131 441 5405

http://www.waverleycare.org/

'Buddies' are trained volunteer befrienders, trained and supported by Waverley Care, who support people who use the service outside Waverley Care premises i.e. at home, in prison etc. and offer Offers emotional, social and occasionally practical support to people living with HIV who live in Edinburgh or the Lothian regions.

Caledonian Thebans

Gay rugby team

http://www.thebans-rfc.co.uk/


Highlands

Reach Out Highlands/Highland Youth Group

34 Waterloo Place,
Inverness
t 01463 711585


Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire Gay Men's Group

t 07967 140629
f 0870 0806088

Lanarkshire Gay & Lesbian Youth Group

t 0845 607 1936

PhaceWest

49 Bath Street,
Glasgow G2 2DL
(use for contacting Lanarkshire and Dumbarton LGB Youth groups)
t 0141 332 3838
f 0141 332 3755


West Lothian

Switchboards

Borders Gay Switchboard

01896 756611
(Thursdays 7:30-10:00pm)

Dumfries & Galloway L&G Phoneline

01387 261818
(Tuesday Evenings)

Dundee LGB Switchboard

01382 202620
(Mondays 7:00pm-10:00pm)

Fife Friend

01592 26688
(Fridays 7:30pm-10:00pm)

Forth Friend

01786 471285
(Mondays 7:30pm-10:00pm)

Grampian LGB Switchboard

01224 633500 (minicom available)
(Wednesdays & Fridays 7:00pm-10:00
pm)
fax 01224 634055

Lothian Lesbian & Gay Switchboard

0131 556 4049
(Every Night 7:30pm-10:00pm)

Moray LGB Switchboard

01343 541188
(MEN: Fridays 7:00pm-10:00pm)

Strathclyde L&G Switchboard

0141 332 8372
(nightly 7:00pm-10:00pm)

London L&G Switchboard

0207 837 7324
(24Hrs & Minicom)
http://www.llgs.org.uk/

National AIDS Helpline

0800 567 123
(Free, 24Hrs)

Hepatitis Info from
the British Liver Trust:
http://www.britishlivertrust.org.uk
e [email protected]

or [email protected]

> main GMH hepatitis page

 

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