Poland
| 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 | |
| Free HIV testing | |
| HIV testing free to all who want it? | Yes for all |
| Further comments | We have 32 VCT (voluntary counselling and testing) in Poland |
| Is free HIV testing available? | Across whole country |
| 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? | Yes |
| Community testing at NGOs legal? | Yes |
| Community/outreach event testing legal? | No |
| Other | |
| Rapid tests used by community based testing services/initiatives? | Finger blood, Saliva |
| 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 | People living with HIV have the same rights as any other citizen of Polish and results from the constitution |
| Other key populations | |
| Needle exchange available for people who inject drugs? | Yes |
| Further comments | Availability of needle exchange is also confirmed by information available on https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction |
| 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 | |
| Legal to buy sex? | No |
| Further comments | Prostitution is legal in Poland, but the Penal Code Articles 204 criminalize the related activities of inducing or facilitating prostitution and living off the material benefits of another |
| Access to HIV Treatment | |
| Free access to HIV treatment? | Yes, for some |
| Further comments | A person needs to be insured |
| 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 but there are exceptions |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | A person needs to be insured |
| Legal treatment access: general non-EU migrants | Yes but there are exceptions |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | A person needs to be insured |
| Legal treatment access: Non-EU migrants with asylum/refugee status | Yes but there are exceptions |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | A person needs to be insured |
| Legal treatment access: Non-EU migrants who are undocumented | Yes but there are exceptions |
| If yes but exceptions, please describe | A person needs to be insured |
| Further comments | |
| About this data | |
| Last minor revision | 12 July 2016 |
| Last major revision | 5 January 2017 |
| Published | 19 January 2017 |
| Data sources | As well as responses
from in-country individuals and organisations information and data was taken
from the following sources: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/aids/Pages/monitoring-dublin-declaration.aspx Sex Work Laws These included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_by_country#Europe The Global Network of Sex Work Projects www.nswp.org and country sources and http://sexualrightsdatabase.org/map/21/Adult%20sex%20work and http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw Drug use Needle exchange information was taken from Harm Reduction International who have an interactive tool https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction Criminal Law http://criminalisation.gnpplus.net has useful info about the criminal law and is searchable by country as well as http://www.hivjustice.net/site/countries/ MSM http://ilga.org/what-we-do/state-sponsored-homophobia-report/ (2016) |
| Data contacts | Responses were
received from National AIDS centre (www.aids.gov.pl), Foundation of Social Education(www.fes.edu.pl) and 'Siec Plus' (www.netplus.org.pl) |