Luxembourg
| National policy | |
|---|---|
| National policy/strategy or official recommendations on HIV testing? | Yes |
| Who can administer HIV tests? | |
| Restrictions on who can legally administer HIV tests? | Yes |
| Which groups can legally do HIV testing? |
|
| Further comments | Currently, Luxembourg is contemplating on a law that allows for rapid testing for other health staff with specific training and to allow community workers to perform testing. |
| Free HIV testing | |
| HIV testing free to all who want it? | Yes in certain places |
| Further comments | |
| Is free HIV testing available? | Yes in certain places |
| Further comments | |
| HIV testing restrictions | |
| HIV testing access restricted for some groups/populations? | No |
| Which groups are restricted | |
| Further comments | |
| Availability of testing in non-clinical settings | |
| Is testing available in any of the following ways? | |
| Postal HIV sampling legal? | No |
| Home HIV testing legal? | No |
| Community testing at NGOs legal? | Yes |
| Community/outreach event testing legal? | Yes |
| Other | Mobile testing units done by NGO's |
| Rapid tests used by community based testing services/initiatives? | Finger blood |
| Anonymity/Confidentiality of HIV testing | |
| Anonymous testing available? | Yes |
| If yes, please give details | |
| If not, why not, what sort of information is required and is there any promise of confidentiality? | |
| Discrimination & equality | |
| Legislation | |
| Legislation protecting the rights of people with HIV? | Yes |
| Key documents | |
| Further comments | Not available in English. |
| Other key populations | |
| Needle exchange available for people who inject drugs? | Yes |
| Further comments | Confirmed by our respondents but according to https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction, there are no services |
| Opiate substitution therapy available? | Yes |
| Further comments | Availability of OST
is also confirmed by information available on https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction |
| Are PWID (people who inject drugs) excluded from HIV treatment while actively using drugs? | No |
| Further comments | |
| Legal to sell sex? | Yes |
| Further comments | The keeping of brothels and pimping are illegal (Article 379bis) Adult sex work (buying/selling) is not criminal. (For more information: http://sexualrightsdatabase.org/map/21/Adult%20sex%20work/446/Luxembourg) |
| Legal to buy sex? | Yes |
| Further comments | The keeping of brothels and pimping are illegal (Article 379bis) Adult sex work (buying/selling) is not criminal. (For more information: http://sexualrightsdatabase.org/map/21/Adult%20sex%20work/446/Luxembourg) |
| Access to HIV Treatment | |
| Free access to HIV treatment? | Yes, for all |
| Further comments | Health insurance is needed to access services, If not available, special help is given by the Health Ministry. (request is given by HIV Berodung Red Cross) |
| Status and access to HIV treatment and care in your country | |
| Access to HIV treatment restricted for certain populations with HIV? | No |
| Which groups are restricted? | |
| If more than one of the above populations selected, please give more information | |
| Status | |
| Country status | EU |
| Mobility in Europe | |
| Do the following groups/populations have legal access to HIV treatment? (i.e provided on the same basis as citizens of the country) | |
| Legal treatment access: Other EU migrant nationals | Yes there is universal access |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
| Legal treatment access: general non-EU migrants | Yes there is universal access |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
| Legal treatment access: Non-EU migrants with asylum/refugee status | Yes there is universal access |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
| Legal treatment access: Non-EU migrants who are undocumented | Yes there is universal access |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
| Further comments | |
| About this data | |
| Last minor revision | |
| Last major revision | 19 December 2016 |
| Published | 5 January 2017 |
| Data sources | As well as responses from in-country individuals and organisations were taken from the following sources: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/aids/Pages/monitoring-dublin-declaration.aspx |
| Data contacts | Responses were
received from Stop AIDS Now (www.sida.lu) and HIV Berodung Croix-Rouge Luxembourgeoise (www.aids.lu). |