Landlæknisembættið - Directorate of Health

The pamphlet Facts about HIV and AIDS is available in five languages in addition to Icelandic: English, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Kroatian, and Thai.

Please click the appropriate flag to the right for the language you prefer. Click the Icelandic flag for the pdf format or html text in Icelandic.

The printed versions of the pamphlets are available at the Directorate of Health, Austurströnd 5, Seltjarnarnes, tel. 510 1900, e-mail: mottaka@landlaeknir.is.   

They can also be obtained at the Intercultural Center in Reykjavik,  the Multicultural and Information Centre in Ísafjörður and the Intercultural Centre in Akureyri.

For statisical information in English on this web site on HIV/AIDS in Iceland see: HIV/AIDS December 2009

Please note: Address information in the pamphlet Facts about HIV and AIDS on places where you can be tested for antibodies has been changed in some instances.

At present these places are:

• Health care centres in Iceland
  
  
• A-1, Department for skin disease and sexually transmittted diseases, Landspitali (LSH) Fossvogur, 108 Reykjavík, tel: 5436050. Opening hours: 8:15–15:45 (by appointment).
  

• A-3. Outpatient ward for infectious diseases, Landspitali (LSH) Fossvogur, 108 Reykjavik, tel: 5436040. Opening hours: 8:00–16:00 (by appointment).
  
  
• The Central GPs’ On-call Service, Smáratorg 1, 200 Kópavogur, tel: 1770. Opening hours: 17:00– 23:30 on weekdays; 9:00–23:30 on weekends and public holidays.

Updated 31 January 2011