PRIOR REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED – WE KINDLY ASK ALL CLIENTS TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT ONLINE:
Our Counselling and Diagnostic Centre in Krakow (PKD) offers anonymous, free-of-charge HIV tests, allong with professional counselling on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We welcome English-speaking persons to use our services.
Counselling and Diagnostic Centre is located at the Diagnostyka Blood and Sample Collection (PL 'Punkt Pobrań')
Plac Szczepański 3
(1st floor, the facility is accessible by the elevator)
Testing appoitments and collecting results:
- Monday 3:00 PM- 6:00 PM
- Thursday 3:00 PM- 6:00 PM
- Wednesday 3:00 PM- 6:00 PM
- Tuesday 3:00 PM- 6:00 PM
- Friday 3:00 PM- 6:00 PM
Counselling in Polish Sign Language available on:
- Next month: TBA
Counselling in Russian available on:
- August 18
- Next month: TBA
CALL US AT 513 652 351
EVERY MONDAY FROM 09:00 TO 10:00 AM
AND EVERY TUESDAY FROM 5:30 TO 7:30 PM
YOU CAN ALSO E-MAIL US:
PKD.KRAKOW@STOWARZYSZENIEJEDENSWIAT.ORG
Due to the epidemics, testing is possible only by appointment — the link is at the top of the page.
TO ENSURE TOP QUALITY OF OUR SERVICE, WE WILL ADMIT THE LAST PERSON NO LATER THAN HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THE CLOSING TIME.
Additional information:
- The building is accessible for persons with motor and vision disabilities (we will be happy to help any person requiring our assistance)
- It is not compulsory to fast prior to getting the HIV test. It is not possible, however, to collect the sample from the person who have recently consumed alcohol or other psychoactive substances (with the exception of pharmaceuticals).
- We offer counselling in Polish, English, Polish Sign Language (on selected days; see above) and Russian Language (on selected days; see above).
- For persons under the age of 18, it is obligatory to obtain informed consent of both the minor and the parent/guardian.
Counselling and Diagnostic Centre in Kraków is financed with The National AIDS Centre at the Ministry of Health funds.
The project is co-financed by the Municipality of Kraków.
Counselling and Diagnostic Centre in Kraków is a publicly funded project.
Programme name: Krajowy Program Zapobiegania Zakażeniom HIV i Zwalczania AIDS na lata 2022-2026.
Project name: Punkt Konsultacyjno-Diagnostyczny wykonujący badania w kierunku HIV anonimowo i bezpłatnie połączony z poradnictwem okołotestowym w Krakowie
Funding Amount: 345 000.00 PLN
Overall project amount: 441 508.88 PLN
Brief description of the project: The main objective of the project is to provide anonymous and free-of-charge HIV tests in the Counselling and Diagnostic Centre in Krakow (PKD) coordinated by the Health Prophylaxis Association “One World”. The basic tasks of the Centre are: professional counselling prior to and after perfoming the HIV test, ordering and scheduling tests, collecting blood samples, as well as conveying and explaining results to the clients. The project is aimed at the general population, in particular the inhabitants of Lesser Poland – any person wishing to having the test done and is looking for reliable medical information on risk assigment is welcome to use the Centre’s services. Main result of the project is to provide the clients with the opportunity to learn their serological status (i. e. whether or not they are HIV-positve). All the actions are aimed at enabeling acess to evidence-based knowledge on HIV infection and health prophylaxis, and at allowing the persons recently diagnosed with HIV to undrtake the treatment as soon as possible, thus contributing to improvement of their quality of life. Better access to information about one’s serological status shall limit the number of new HIV transmisions in the general population.