Aksept is a national healthcare and social services centre for anyone affected by HIV. We work to ensure that everyone living with HIV gets the support, advice and care that they need, according to their individual needs.

A low-threshold service

Anyone can come to us. No one needs to be referred by a doctor, and all our services are free. Our services are used by individuals, couples, families and professionals. The people who contact us have different social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, beliefs, life experiences, gender identities and ages.

High level of professional expertise

Aksept has more than 35 years of experience in the field of HIV. Our staff have a high level of expertise in healthcare and social services, and extensive experience in their fields of work.

Aksept is a health and social services supplement to the specialist healthcare services, and is part of an interconnected medical service, designed to provide a good patient journey and ensure that people living with HIV receive psycho-social follow-up.

Approaches and methods

Getting a diagnosis of HIV is more than a medical challenge. We have a dialogue-based approach which focuses on enabling people to cope. We aim to treat people with respect, regardless of their beliefs and life choices, in an open and unprejudiced way. Our focus is on the whole person: on physical, mental, relational, sexual, religious, cultural, workplace and leisure issues. We focus on individual needs and look at every aspect from a lifelong perspective.

Our goals are to:

– Provide care and enable people affected by HIV to cope with the challenges of life
– Prevent and reduce new cases of HIV
– Ensure that the general public and people in the healthcare and social services sector are better informed about HIV

Living with HIV

The situation in the field of HIV has changed enormously since 1987. Medical developments have helped make treatment more effective and given us more knowledge. These days, the HIV virus is something that you can live a long and good life with, and not something that you die from. Nowadays, HIV is considered to be a long-term infection. If treated successfully, a person living with HIV will not affect others.

 

Aksept is part of Kirkens Bymisjon (the Church City Mission), and is funded by the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Oslo Municipality.